{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2002/introduction",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2002/610",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Amendment Regulations 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2002",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 20th March 2002\nLaid before Parliament 21st March 2002\nComing into force 12th April 2002\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by section 10(1), (2), (2A) and (3) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation Act 1972, and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consulting such representatives of persons likely to be affected by these Regulations as appear to him to be appropriate, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations:",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1972 c. 11; subsection (1)(a) of section 10 was amended by the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c. 32), Schedule 5; subsection (1) was amended, and subsection (2A) was inserted, by the Pensions (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1990 (c. 7), sections 4(2) and 8(5)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "See section 10(4) of the Superannuation Act 1972."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See section 10(1) of the Superannuation Act 1972, and article 2 of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for the Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2002/610/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:11:55.218071+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."
}