The National Health Service (Pension Scheme and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2000

Amendment of regulation A2

3.  In regulation A2 (interpretation)–

(a) in the definition of “dental pilot scheme employee”(1) for the words “an individual”, in the second place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “a person”;

(b) in the definition of “employing authority”–

(i) for paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:–

“(a) a Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977(2);

(aa) a Special Health Authority established under section 11 of that Act(3);”,

(ii) paragraph (b) shall be omitted,

(iii) before paragraph (c) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:–

“(bb) a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of that Act(4);”;

(c) in the definition of “medical pilot scheme employee”(5) for the words “an individual”, in the second place where they occur, there shall be substituted the words “a person”;

(d) in the definition of “NHS dental employee”(6) after paragraph (a) there shall be inserted the following paragraph:–

“(aa) a Primary Care Trust;”;

(e) in the definition of “specialist” after the word “consultant” there shall be inserted the words “, other than a nurse consultant, or a ”.

(1)

This definition was inserted by S.I. 1998/2216.

(2)

1977 c. 49; section 8 was substituted by section 1 of the Health Authorities Act 1995 (c. 19) (“the 1995 Act”) and amended by paragraph 5 of Schedule 4 to the Health Act 1999 (c. 8) (“the 1999 Act”).

(3)

Section 11 was amended by paragraph 1 of Schedule 1 to the 1995 Act and by paragraph 6 of Schedule 4 to the 1999 Act.

(4)

Section 16A was inserted in the National Health Service Act 1977 by section 2(1) of the 1999 Act.

(5)

This definition was inserted by S.I. 1998/2216.

(6)

This definition was inserted by S.I. 1998/2216.