# The National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 1981, Note: Explanatory note


These regulations provide for the payment of compensation to or in respect of a person who was employed in the National Health Service in England and Wales and has prematurely retired from that employment by reason of redundancy or in the interests of the efficiency of the service.
The regulations specify the conditions necessary to qualify for, and the method of calculation of, the compensation (regulations 3, 4 and 5). They also provide for the payment of compensation to the widow and certain dependants of the entitled officer if he dies after becoming entitled to receive compensation (regulations 6 and 7). They further make provision for the adjustment and reduction in certain cases of the compensation so as to take into account superannuation benefits, other compensation payments and remuneration paid out of public funds in respect of subsequent employment (regulations 8 and 9).
The regulations contain miscellaneous provisions relating to the supply of information and documents (regulation 10), the procedure for the payment of compensation (regulation 11) and for the determination of questions arising under the regulations (regulation 12). They also amend the National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974 so that those regulations shall not apply to any person who suffers loss of employment or loss or diminution of emoluments which is attributable to an instrument made under the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 or the Local Government Act 1972 after 2nd October 1981 (regulation 13).
In accordance with section 24(3) of the Superannuation Act 1972 regulations 2 to 4, 5(1) and (5) to (13), 6 to 11 and the Schedule have retrospective effect as from 29th October 1976 and regulation 5(2) to (4) has retrospective effect as from 4th November 1980.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1981/1263/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-compensation-for-premature-retirement-regulations-1981/note
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