The Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990

Opting out of pensionable employment

7.  In regulation B4A of the principal Regulations -

(a) for paragraphs (1) and (2) there shall be substituted the following:–

“(1) A person who is a pensionable employee, or who on entering employment with an employing authority would become a pensionable employee, may at any time notify his employing authority in writing that he does not wish to be a pensionable employee for the purposes of these Regulations.

(2) A notification given under paragraph (1) and received by the employing authority before or during the first pay period of entering employment shall have effect from the first day of employment and a notification given at any time thereafter shall have effect from the day following the end of the pay period in which the notification was received or such later date as may be specified in the notification.”;

(b) at the end of the regulation there shall be added the following paragraphs:–

“(5) Any person who between 6th April 1988 and 1st April 1990 was entitled to make an election under regulation B4(1) before its revocation by the Local Government Superannuation (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 1990 but did not do so shall be deemed to have given a notification under paragraph (1) of this regulation.

(6) In paragraph (2)–

“pay period” means the period in respect of which each payment of salary or wages is made.”.