The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995

[F1 Increased surviving partner’s pension E+W+S

G17.— (1) [F2 If a member makes a valid election pursuant to regulation G16(3)(a)] to buy an increased surviving partner’s pension under regulation G16(1), any survivor’s pension that becomes payable in respect of that member will be based on pensionable service after 5th April 1988 plus any period of pensionable service before that date that the member elected to buy for this purpose under regulation G16(1).

(2) Any survivor’s pension payable in respect of the member shall be paid to (as the case may be) the member’s surviving widower, civil partner or nominated partner regardless of whether that pension is payable by virtue of regulation G7, regulation G10 or regulation G14.

(3) Subject to paragraph (4), any retirement lump sum payable to a member under regulation E6, in respect of any period of pensionable service that the member elected to buy as described in paragraph (1), will be reduced by 1.4 times the yearly rate of the member’s pension plus the relevant daily proportion of that rate for each additional day (except to the extent that any lump sum reduction has been off-set under regulation Q2) (right to buy an unreduced retirement lump sum).

(4) If regulation E2(10), regulation E2A(10) or regulation L1(8) (ill health retirement pensions and preserved pension) applies to a member to whom this regulation refers, any reference in those regulations to a lump sum payable on retirement must be taken to mean a lump sum that is not reduced as described in paragraph (2) of this regulation.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6) if, by virtue of an election under regulation G16(1), the amount of the retirement lump sum would fall to be reduced by 1.4 times the yearly rate of a member’s pension plus the relevant daily proportion of that rate for each additional day, he may make an election to purchase an unreduced lump sum under regulation Q2 provided that the election is made [F3 during either of the periods specified in regulation G16(3)(a)].

(6) A member who has purchased additional service in accordance with regulation Q1 by way of a payment under regulation Q6 is not entitled to make an election under paragraph (4) in respect of the purchase of an unreduced lump sum.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regs. G14-G17 inserted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 29

F2 Words in reg. G17(1) substituted (13.3.2014) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions, Compensation for Premature Retirement and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/78), regs. 1(2), 8(2)

F3 Words in reg. G17(5) substituted (13.3.2014) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions, Compensation for Premature Retirement and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/78), regs. 1(2), 8(3)