{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-miscellaneous-provisions-no-2-regulations-1988/regulation-10",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-miscellaneous-provisions-no-2-regulations-1988/regulation-10.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/816",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Regulations 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-superannuation-miscellaneous-provisions-no-2-regulations-1988",
  "path": "regulation/10",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "10",
  "heading": "Voluntary membership",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is employed in reckonable service, or\n(b) is not so employed but expects to enter an employment in which he otherwise would be,\nmay at any time, by giving written notice to the Secretary of State, make an election under this regulation.\n(2) As from the date from which the election has effect, the person is to be treated for all purposes of the principal Regulations—\n(a) where paragraph (1)(a) applies, as having ceased to be employed in reckonable service, and\n(b) in any case, subject to regulation 11 below, as not becoming so employed in any subsequent employment.\n(3) Where paragraph (1)(a) applies, an election under this regulation—\n(a) if the person was employed in reckonable service immediately before, and the notice is given within 3 months after, 6th April 1988, has effect as from that date,\n(b) if he becomes so employed on or after 6th April 1988 and the notice is given within 3 months after becoming so employed, has effect as from the date on which he became so employed, and\n(c) in any other case, has effect from the first day of the month after that in which the notice was given.\n(4) Where paragraph (1)(b) applies, the election has effect as from the day before that on which he first enters any such employment as is there mentioned.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/816/regulation/10",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T16:07:02.863864+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."
}