PART 3Scheme membership

CHAPTER 3Pensionable service

SECTION 4Pensionable service before automatic enrolment date

Opting out of this scheme before automatic enrolment date30

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.