{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-additional-voluntary-contributions-regulations-2000/schedule-2/paragraph-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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Pension credit member dies before pension credit benefit becomes payable",
  "text": "If a pension credit member dies before his pension under the AVC scheme becomes payable under paragraph 4 of this Schedule, the Secretary of State may realise the investments made under paragraph 2 without purchasing an annuity and the proceeds shall be payable as a lump sum in accordance with regulation 15(3) of these Regulations.",
  "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"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2000/619/schedule/2/paragraph/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."
}