{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-regulations-1995/regulation-5",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1995/866",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of service",
  "text": "A person’s service shall comprise all of the periods which at the date on which he ceased to hold an employment or appointment mentioned in regulation 3(1), or on which the emoluments of such employment or appointment were reduced, as the case may be, fell within any of the following descriptions, but no period shall be taken into account under more than one description—\n(a) any period during which he held such employment or appointment;\n(b) any period of employment that would be taken into account for any purpose of a relevant pension scheme;\nand\n(c) any other period that the Secretary of State may approve in any particular case.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/866/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:19.481240+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}