The Coal Industry (Protected Persons) Pensions Regulations 1994

Termination of protection

14.—(1) A protected employee may at any time elect that he does not wish to be a protected employee, and a protected beneficiary may at any time elect that he does not wish to be a protected beneficiary.

(2) Any person who wishes to make an election under paragraph (1) (“the elector”) shall complete a notice in the form set out in Schedule 1 and shall serve it on his employer.

(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), an election under paragraph (1) shall have effect from the date specified in the notice served under paragraph (2), and thereafter the elector shall cease to be a protected employee or a protected beneficiary, as the case may be, for the purpose of these Regulations.

(4) Upon receipt of any notice served under paragraph (2), the employer shall within 21 days send to the elector an acknowledgement in the form set out in Schedule 2.

(5) Unless the elector, within 21 days of the receipt of such acknowledgement, notifies the employer in writing that he wishes to withdraw the notice served under paragraph (2) (in which event that notice shall be deemed never to have been given) such notice shall take effect upon the date stated in the notice and shall be irrevocable.