The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995

Admission to the Scheme

B11.—(1) A person who has or is deemed to have applied under regulation B10 and is eligible to be a member of the Scheme shall become a member of it on the appropriate day.

(2) In this regulation, “the appropriate day” means—

(a) in the case of a person who has applied under regulation B10(1) at least one month before the date on which he commences his employment (or such lesser period before that date as his employer allows), the date on which he commences his employment or such later date as he has specified in his application;

(b) in any other case where an application is made under that regulation, the first day of the first payment period following the application;

(c) in the case of a person who is deemed to have applied under regulation B10(2)—

(i) if he is a person to whom that paragraph applied on the date when he commenced his employment, that date, and

(ii) otherwise, on the date on which it began to apply to him.

(3) In paragraph (2)(b), “payment period” means a period of service to which the employee’s payment of wages or salary relates.