Regulation 2 Interpretation

In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—

• “additional period of service” means a period of service calculated in accordance with regulation 5 of these regulations;

• “early retirement regulations” means any regulations made under section 44 of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973, section 34A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972, section 260 of the Local Government Act 1972, section 220 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 and article 3 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973:

• “employing authority” means—

  1. (a)

     a Regional Health Authority, an Area Health Authority, or a special health authority:

  2. (b)

     a preserved Board within the meaning of section 15 of the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973;

  3. (c)

     the Dental Estimates Board constituted under section 37 of the National Health Service Act 1977;

  4. (d)

     any other body constituted under the National Health Service Act 1977 or any other Act relating to the provision of health services as the Secretary of State may approve;

• “entitled officer” means a person to whom these regulations apply in accordance with regulation 3;

• “the local government compensation regulations” means any regulations made under section 259 of the Local Government Act 1972, section 60(2) of the Local Government Act 1958, section 24 of the Superannuation Act 1972 in relation to local government service, section 85(4) of the London Government Act 1963, the corresponding provisions of any previous enactment, and the corresponding provisions in force in Scotland, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man;

• “the material date”, in relation to an entitled officer, means the date on which a person became an entitled officer;

• “officer” has the same meaning as in the superannuation regulations except that it shall not include—

  1. (a)

     a practitioner as defined in regulation 3 of those regulations; and

  2. (b)

     a person to whom regulation 48 (persons subject to non-statutory superannuation schemes) or regulation 79 (practitioners' contracts or policies of insurance) of those regulations applied immediately before the material date if that person is not entitled to benefits payable by the Secretary of State under the provisions of those regulations in respect of the employment referred to in regulation 3(1);

• “reckonable service”, in relation to an entitled officer, means his service in respect of which benefits are payable under the superannuation regulations;

• “the superannuation regulations” means the National Health Service (Superannuation) Regulations 1980;

• “the 1974 regulations” means the National Health Service (Compensation) Regulations 1974, the National Health Service (Transfer of Officers and Compensation) Regulations 1948^f1, and the compensation provisions of any order made under section 11(9) of the National Health Service Act 1946.

Unless the context otherwise requires, any reference in these regulations to a numbered regulation is a reference to the regulation in these regulations which bears that number, and any reference in a regulation or the Schedule to these regulations to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation, or as the case may be, that Schedule.