PART 3Scheme membership

CHAPTER 2Pensionable service

Automatic enrolment20

1

A person (P) who is not in pensionable service under the scheme immediately before P’s first eligible day of service in a scheme employment begins pensionable service under this scheme on P’s first eligible day of service in that employment unless—

a

regulation 24 (opting out before the end of the first three months) applies; or

b

P is a transition member with continuity of service and paragraph (2) applies.

2

This paragraph applies if—

a

P’s first eligible day of service in the scheme employment is the day after P’s transition date; and

b

on P’s transition date—

i

P was in service in the same employment, and

ii

P had opted out of the FPS or the NFPS, as the case may be, in relation to that service.