The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2015 No. 96

PART 5 Amendment of the National Health Service Pension Scheme (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2000

Substitution of regulation 20

64.  For regulation 20 (loss of rights to benefits), substitute—

“Loss of rights to benefits

20.— (1) Where paragraph (2) applies, the Secretary of State may direct that all or any part of any rights to benefit a person has under these Regulations and which arise by virtue of an employer’s contributions paid on or after the date on which these Regulations come into force, are to be forfeited.

(2) This paragraph applies where on or after the date these Regulations come into force—

(a) that person commits and is convicted of an offence referred to in—

(i) regulation T6 of the 1995 Regulations (loss of rights to benefits);

(ii) regulation 2.J.7 or 3.J.7 of the 2008 Regulations (forfeiture of rights to benefits), or

(iii) paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the 2015 Regulations (forfeiture of rights to benefits), and

(b) the circumstances are such that a direction may be made by the Secretary of State under whichever of those provisions applies.”.