The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2016

Amendment of Schedule 2

18.—(1) Schedule 2 (medical and dental practitioners) is amended as follows.

(2) In the definition of “locum practitioner” in paragraph 1 (additional definitions used in this Schedule), after “provision of” insert “services pursuant to an NHS standard contract or an NHS standard sub-contract,”.

(3) In paragraph 3 (meaning of “pensionable earnings”)—

(a) in paragraph (a)(i) of sub-paragraph (2), after “NHS standard contract” insert “, an NHS standard sub-contract where the party to the NHS standard contract in question is an employing authority”;

(b) in sub-paragraphs (2B)(a)(ii) and (2C)(b)(1), after “parental leave” insert “, shared parental leave”.

(4) In paragraph 6 (meaning of “pensionable earnings” in relation to other practitioners)—

(a) in paragraph (a) of sub-paragraph (1) after “an NHS standard contract” insert “, an NHS standard sub-contract where the party to the NHS standard contract in question is an employing authority”;

(b) in sub-paragraph (4)—

(i) in paragraph (g), after “an NHS standard contract” insert “, an NHS standard sub-contract where the party to the NHS standard contract in question is an employing authority”;

(ii) omit paragraph (h).

(5) In paragraph (c) of sub-paragraph (5) and paragraph (e) of sub-paragraph (6) of paragraph 23 (accounts and actuarial reports)(2), after “parental leave payments” insert “, shared parental leave payments”.

(1)

Sub-paragraph (2B) was last amended by regulation 6 of S.I. 2014/570 and sub-paragraph (2C) was last amended by regulation 2 of S.I. 2013/413.

(2)

Sub-paragraphs (5) and (6) were last amended by regulation 2 of S.I. 2013/413.