The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2008

CHAPTER 4.D GENERAL MODIFICATIONS

45 year service limit

4.D.1    Pensionable service limit

(1) Subject to paragraph (3), in determining whether or not a member has reached 45 years of pensionable service for the purposes of regulation 2.A.2, the amount of pensionable service accrued under Part 3 of these Regulations shall be included in the aggregate calculated under paragraph (1) of that regulation.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), in determining whether or not a member has reached 45 years of pensionable service for the purposes of regulation 3.A.3, the amount of pensionable service accrued under Part 2 of these Regulations shall be included in the aggregate calculated under paragraph (1) of that regulation.

(3) Where a person is concurrently in officer service and practitioner service in any year, that year shall count as a single year for the purpose of calculating 45 years pensionable service.

(4) Where the aggregate of pensionable service under Part 2 and Part 3 is in excess of 45 years—

(a) benefits under each of Part 2 and Part 3 shall be calculated by reference to such number of years as the Secretary of State determines;

(b) the aggregate of pensionable service under Part 2 and Part 3 determined in paragraph (a) shall be 45 years; and

(c) the Secretary of State shall select the years by reference to which the benefits under each Part are to be calculated, selecting the years which produce the most favourable result to the member.

Claims and notices

4.D.2    Applications, claims and notices

An application or claim made or a notice given for the purposes of a regulation listed in column 1 of the following table shall be treated as an application or claim made or notice given for the purposes of the corresponding regulation in column 2 (and vice versa) without more.

Table

Column 1	Column 2
Regulation in Part 2	Regulation in Part 3
2.D.8	3.D.7
2.D.10	3.D.9
2.D.14	3.D.11
2.E.21	3.E.21
2.F.2	3.F.2
2.F.3	3.F.3

Abatement

4.D.3    Reduction of pension

(1) The pension payable under Part 3 shall be reduced in accordance with Chapter 3.H but with the following modifications—

(a) relevant income shall include the enhancement amount determined under regulation 2.H.4(2); and

(b) where a practitioner becomes entitled to a receive a pension under Part 3 and in the 12 months preceding the date on which the member becomes so entitled also held concurrent pensionable employment as an officer, the member’s previous earnings in respect of the member’s practitioner service shall be increased by the amount of the member’s previous pay in respect of the member’s officer service.

(2) Where the reduction applied under the modified Part 3 is not the full amount of the excess determined under that modified Part, such part of the excess as has not given rise to a reduction in the old service pension in Part 3 shall be the excess for the purposes of regulation 2.H.3(3).