{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2000/619",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Inward transfers",
  "text": "(1) Where a person who enters pensionable employment has paid contributions to a registered additional voluntary contribution scheme for the purposes of the 2004 Act, that person, whether or not he becomes a contributor within the meaning of these Regulations, may—\n(a) within 12 months of entering pensionable employment; or\n(b) such longer period as the Secretary of State may in any particular case allow,\ngive written notice to the Secretary of State that he wishes the Secretary of State to accept from the trustees or managers of that scheme a transfer value representing at least the value of the investments derived from his contributions.\n(2) Where a transfer value is accepted by the Secretary of State it shall be invested by him, in accordance with the wishes of the person entering pensionable employment, in one or more of the authorised funds.\n(3) Where a transfer value is invested under paragraph (2) the person may at any time, by giving written notice to the Secretary of State, require the Secretary of State to realise the whole or part of the sums so invested and to reinvest the proceeds in a different way.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 8(1) substituted (6.4.2006) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/600), regs. 1(2)(b), 30"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 8 in force at 10.4.2000, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/619/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:19:09.912629+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."
}