# The National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 2002, Regulation 2: Interpretation


(1) In these Regulations—
“additional period of service” means a period of service calculated in accordance with regulations 5 and 6;
“early retirement regulations” means any regulations made under section 34A of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972, section 260 of the Local Government Act 1972, article 19 of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 or article 3 of the Superannuation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973;
“employing authority” means—
(a) a Health Authority established under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977 or a Special Health Authority established under section 11 of that Act;
(b) a National Health Service Trust established under section 5 of the National Health Service and Community Care Act 1990;
(c) the Dental Practice Board constituted under section 37(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977;
(d) a Primary Care Trust established under section 16A of the National Health Service Act 1977;
(e) a university or a higher education college, but only in relation to the employment—
(i) in a university’s medical school of those people whose names appear in the Schedule to the Medical School Employment (Superannuation) Direction 1999; or
(ii) of those people whose names appear in the Schedule to the University of London (Postgraduate Deanery Staff) (Superannuation) Direction 1999, the Postgraduate Education in General Practice (Superannuation) Direction 1999; or the University (Postgraduate Deanery Staff) (Superannuation) Direction 1999;
(f) the Secretary of State for Health, but only in relation to the employment of those people whose names appear in the Schedule to the NHS Executive (Postgraduate Deanery Staff) (Superannuation) Direction 1999; and
(g) such other body that is constituted under an Act relating to health services and which the Secretary of State agrees to treat as an employing authority for the purposes of these Regulations;
“entitled officer” means a person to whom these Regulations apply in accordance with regulation 3;
“higher education college” means an institution which has been designated a higher education corporation within the meaning given by section 90(1) of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992;
“local authority” has the same meaning as in the Local Government Act 1972;
“local government compensation regulations” means any regulations made under section 60(2) of the Local Government Act 1958, section 85(4) of the London Government Act 1963, section 259 of the Local Government Act 1972 or section 24 of the Superannuation Act 1972 in relation to local government service 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 he became an entitled officer;
“medical school” means that part of any university at which instruction is given only to medical or dental students with a view to their qualification as fully registered medical practitioners for the purposes of the Medical Act 1983 or, as the case may be, registered dentists for the purposes of the Dentists Act 1984, and includes any postgraduate institute for medical or dental research;
“officer” means a person employed by an employing authority and shall include—
(a) a dental practitioner in respect of whom the Secretary of State has certified that the employment in which he is employed is terminated in the interests of the efficiency of the service in accordance with regulation E3(1)(b)(ii) of the Pension Scheme Regulations (early retirement pension (redundancy etc.)); and
(b) a person whose name appears in the Schedule to the Medical School Employment (Superannuation) Direction 1999, the University (Postgraduate Deanery Staff) (Superannuation) Direction 1999, the Postgraduate Education in General Practice (Superannuation) Direction 1999, the University of London (Postgraduate Deanery Staff) (Superannuation) Direction 1999, or the NHS Executive (Postgraduate Deanery Staff) (Superannuation) Direction 1999;
“Pension Scheme Regulations” means the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995;
“pensionable employment”, in relation to an entitled officer, has the meaning given by regulation A2 of the Pension Scheme Regulations;
“pensionable service”, in relation to an entitled officer, has the meaning given by regulation A2 of the Pension Scheme Regulations;
“previous Regulations” means the National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) Regulations 1981; and
“university” means a self-governing higher education body with the power to award degrees—
(a) which is established by Act of Parliament or Royal Charter; or
(b) whose name includes the word “university” by virtue of the exercise with the consent of the Privy Council of any power as extended by section 77 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992; or
(c) which falls within the definition of “university” under section 90(3) of that Act.
(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
(a) any reference to a numbered regulation or Schedule is a reference to the regulation or, as the case may be, Schedule bearing that number in these Regulations; and
(b) any reference in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is a reference to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation, or as the case may be, that Schedule.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/1311/regulation/2 (the official version)
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