{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-scotland-no-2-regulations-2014/regulation-27.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/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Opting out of this scheme after automatic enrolment date",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) opts out of this scheme in relation to service in an eligible employment if P opts not to be an active member of this scheme in relation to that service.\n(2) P may only exercise this option by written notice to the scheme manager in a form required by the scheme manager (“opt-out notice”).\n(3) An opt-out notice has effect as follows—\n(a) if the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice within 3 months after P enters the employment, from the first day of the employment;\n(b) if sub-paragraph (a) does not apply and the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice within 3 months after P’s automatic enrolment date for the employment, from P’s automatic enrolment date;\n(c) if neither sub-paragraph (a) nor (b) applies and the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice within 3 months after P’s automatic re-enrolment date, from P’s automatic re-enrolment date;\n(d) otherwise, from the first day of the month after the month in which the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice.\n(4) An opt–out notice ceases to have effect from the earlier of—\n(a) the date on which a subsequent opt-in notice has effect in relation to service in that employment; and\n(b) P’s automatic enrolment date for that employment.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 27 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/27",
    "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."
}