{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-14.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/14",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Loss of rights to benefits",
  "text": "(1) Where paragraph (2) applies, the Secretary of State may direct that all or any part of any rights to pension credit benefit a pension credit member has under this Schedule and which arise by virtue of an employer’s contributions paid on or after the date on which the AVC Regulations come into force in respect of a relevant participator, are to be forfeited.\n(2) This paragraph applies where on or after the date these Regulations come into force—\n(a) that pension credit member commits and is convicted of an offence referred to in—\n(i) regulation T6 of the 1995 Regulations (loss of rights to benefits);\n(ii) regulation 2.J.7 or 3.J.7 of the 2008 Regulations (forfeiture of rights to benefits), or\n(iii) paragraph 12 of Schedule 3 to the 2015 Regulations (forfeiture of rights to benefits), and\n(b) the circumstances are such that a direction may be made by the Secretary of State under whichever of those regulations applies.\n(3) In this paragraph “relevant participator” means the participator in relation to whose rights under the AVC scheme the pension sharing order or provision, which gave the pension credit member in question entitlement to a pension credit, was made.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 inserted (1.5.2001) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Pension Sharing) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1428), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 6"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 14 substituted (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/96), regs. 1(2), 65(6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/619/schedule/2/paragraph/14",
    "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."
}