PART 3Scheme membership
CHAPTER 3Pensionable service
SECTION 4Pensionable service before automatic enrolment date
Opting out of this scheme before automatic enrolment date31.
(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 Department in a form required by it (“opt-out notice”).
(3)
An opt-out notice has effect—
(a)
if the Department 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 Department 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.