The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995

Suspension of pension on return to NHS employment E+W+S

S1.—(1) This regulation applies where a pension is payable to a member by virtue of regulation E1 (normal retirement pension), E4 (early retirement pension with employer’s consent) or E5 (early retirement pension with actuarial reduction), or a preserved pension is payable to the member in the circumstances described [F1 in L1], and, within one month of the pension becoming payable, the member enters NHS employment in which he is engaged for more than 16 hours per week.

(2) A member to whom this regulation applies must inform his employer, and any other person that the Secretary of State may specify, that his pension under [F2 this Section of] the scheme has become payable.

(3) Where this regulation applies the pension referred to in paragraph (1) shall, subject to paragraph (4), cease to be payable.

[F3 (4) The pension referred to in paragraph (1) shall again become payable if the member either ceases to be in any NHS employment (or reduces the number of hours worked to 16 or less) for a period of one month or, if sooner—

(a) from the date of the member’s 70th birthday if the pension referred to in paragraph (1) becomes payable on or before 31st March 2008; or

(b) from the date of the member’s 75th birthday if the pension referred to in paragraph (1) becomes payable on or after 1st April 2008.]

(5) For the purposes of this regulation “NHS employment" includes—

[F4 (a) employment in respect of which regulations made under section 10 of the Superannuation Act 1972, and having effect in Scotland, apply; employment to which regulations made under Article 12 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 apply and employment commencing on or before 31st March 2012 to which a scheme made under section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1984 (an Act of Tynwald) applies; and]

(b) employment with an employer with whom an agreement has been made under [F5 section 235 of the 2006 Act] or in respect of whom a direction has been made under section 7 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967 M1 .

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in reg. S1(1) substituted (1.4.2000) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/605), regs. 1(1)(b), 13(1)

F2 Words in reg. S1(2) inserted (1.10.2009) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2446), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1

F3 Reg. S1(4) substituted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 56

F4 Reg. S1(5)(a) substituted (1.4.2012) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2012 (S.I. 2012/610), regs. 1(2), 6

F5 Words in reg. S1(5)(b) substituted (14.12.2007) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3280), regs. 1(2), 2(17)

Marginal Citations

M1 1967 c.28.