The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015

Amendment of the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015

2.—(1) The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015(1) are amended as follows.

(2) For regulation 18(1)(b) (membership of contractors), substitute—

“(b) an individual who is a medical contractor, or who is employed by a medical contractor or dental contractor, listed in Part 2 of that Schedule;”.

(3) In paragraph 1 of Schedule 6 (persons to whom the scheme may be extended)—

(a) after sub-paragraph (2)(c), insert—

“(d) who—

(i) is employed by Monitor(2); and

(ii) was at any time previously in employment in which the person was entitled to participate in pension benefits provided by this scheme or a connected scheme.”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (3), for “under these Regulations” substitute “by this scheme or a connected scheme”.

(1)

S.I. 2015/94.

(2)

See section 61 of, and Schedule 8 to, the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (c.7).