PART 3 Amendment of the National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2008

Amendment of regulation 2.A.10

25.  For paragraph (3) of regulation 2.A.10 (meaning of “reckonable pay”: general), substitute—

“(3) A member’s “reckonable pay” is determined by the formula—

Where—

IRP is the interim reckonable pay determined in paragraph (4), (6) or (7), as appropriate, before any adjustment for inflation in accordance with regulation 2.A.11 (adjustments for inflation in determining reckonable pay under regulation 2.A.10),

RPa is the annual rate of retirement pension the member would be entitled to if the reckonable pay used to calculate it was the interim reckonable pay, including any adjustment for inflation described in regulation 2.A.11, and

RPi is the annual rate of retirement pension the member would be entitled to if the reckonable pay used to calculate it was the interim reckonable pay, excluding any adjustment for inflation described in regulation 2.A.11, but instead including any increases that pay would attract if it was the annual rate of an official pension within the meaning of section 5(1) of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971.”.