PART 3 Scheme membership

CHAPTER 3 Pensionable service

SECTION 4 Pensionable service before automatic enrolment date

30 Opting out of this scheme before automatic enrolment date
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.
2 P may only exercise the option by written notice to the scheme manager in a form required by the scheme manager (“opt-out notice”).
3 An opt–out notice has effect—
(a) if the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice no later than 3 months after P enters the employment, from the first day of the employment; or
(b) otherwise, from the first day of the month after the month in which the scheme manager receives the opt-out notice.
4 An opt–out notice ceases to have effect from the earlier of—
(a) the date on which a subsequent opt-in notice has effect; and
(b) P’s automatic enrolment date for that employment.