Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002

Joining the Scheme

6.—(1) A person who wishes to become an active member must apply in writing to his employer or future employer.

(2) An eligible person who applies before he begins his employment becomes a member when his employment begins unless he applies to join later.

(3) An eligible employee who applies becomes a member on the first day of the first payment period following the application.

(4) A payment period is a period of service to which the employee’s wages or salary payment relate.

(5) An employee is deemed to have applied to become a member, unless he notified his employer in writing that he did not wish to do so –

(a) before his employment began; or

(b) if he only became eligible to be a member later, before the date he became eligible.

(6) But paragraph (5) does not apply –

(a) to casual employees; or

(b) to former members who opted to leave the Scheme by a notification under regulation 7.

(7) An application for membership may be withdrawn before membership begins.

(8) A former active member may reapply for such membership.

(9) But a person who has given more than one notification under regulation 7 may only reapply again if –

(a) his employer or future employer consents; or

(b) he is beginning a new employment with a new employing authority and he reapplies before he has been employed for three months; or

(c) he is a person about whom information may be given under Article 164(1) of the Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, as it has effect in the case of the Scheme.