{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2014/292",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) ( No. 2) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Eligibility for active membership",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) is eligible to be an active member of this scheme if—\n(a) P is in an eligible employment; and\n(b) P has reached the age of 16 and has not reached the age of 75.\n(2) P is not eligible to be an active member of this scheme if—\n(a) P is employed in an accepted school in which P has a financial interest;\n(b) P is a full protection member of the existing scheme;\n(c) P is a tapered protection member of the existing scheme; or\n(d) but for an election made under regulation B7 of the 2005 Regulations, P would fall within sub-paragraph (b) or (c).\n(3) In this regulation—\n“financial interest” does not include the right to receive a salary; and\n“accepted school” has the meaning given in paragraph 2 of Schedule 1.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/292/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:33:09.984508+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}