The National Health Service Superannuation, Premature Retirement and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 1991

Insertion of regulation 7A into the principal Regulations

4.  After regulation 7 of the principal Regulations (contributions) there shall be inserted the following regulation—

“Recovery of early retirement costs from employing authorities

7A.— (1) The relevant employing authority shall make contributions to the Secretary of State equal to—

(a) the cost of providing the following benefits—

(i) annual pension under regulation 8(1)(a)(vi) or 8(5)(a) of these Regulations (early retirement) in respect of pensioners under the age of 60, or under the age of 55 where regulation 54, 55(1)(a) or 55(2)(a) applies; and

(ii) compensation under regulation 4(1), 6(1) or 7 of the compensation Regulations (payments on early retirement and death); and

(b) the cost of providing any increase in the amount of any benefit to which paragraph (a) applies which is payable under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971(1).

(2) Where the relevant employing authority is under a duty to make any payment under paragraph (1) above, it shall make that payment to the Secretary of State before the end of the quarter following the quarter in which the benefits referred to in that paragraph became payable.

(3) In this regulation—

“relevant employing authority” means the employing authority from whose employment the officer has been certified as retired under regulation 8(7) of these Regulations;

“the compensation Regulations” means the National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 1981(2).”.

(1)

1971 c. 56; see also the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60), section 59.

(2)

S.I. 1981/1263, amended by S.I. 1982/288, 1985/39, 1659.