The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015

Uprating of old scheme practitioner earnings E+W

18.— [F1 (1)] [F2 Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), in relation to] a practitioner transition member, as regards the period [F3 in which the member is a member of the new scheme]—

(a) paragraph 11(2)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations; and

(b) regulation 3.D.1(4) of the 2008 Regulations,

apply as though the words “the annual increase due under the provisions of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 and section 59 of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975, plus” were omitted.

[F4 (2) Paragraph (3) applies if a practitioner transition member is purchasing additional service pursuant to regulation 22 (existing additional service and unreduced lump sum contracts) of these Regulations.

(3) Paragraph (1) does not apply for the purposes of calculating that member’s uprated pensionable earnings in relation to that purchase for the purposes of sub-paragraph (5) of paragraph 20 of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 18 renumbered as reg 18(1) (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/275), regs. 1(2)(a), 51(2)

F2 Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/275), regs. 1(2)(a), 51(3)

F3 Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (1.4.2022) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/327), regs. 1(2), 5(4)

F4 Reg. 18(2)(3) inserted (with effect from 1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/275), regs. 1(2)(a), 51(4)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 18 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(b)