{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/654",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008.\n(2) These Regulations shall come into force on 1st April 2008 and shall have effect from 1st April 2008, except for regulation 66(2) and (3), which shall have effect from 1st April 2003.\n(3) In these Regulations—\n(a) an alpha-numerical reference to a regulation is a reference to a provision of the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995 bearing that alpha-numeric;\n(b) an alphabetical reference to a Part is a reference to a Part of those Regulations bearing that letter.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) substituted (31.3.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Correction to Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/906), regs. 1(2), 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 1 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/300 amended by S.I. 1997/80 and 1888, 1998/666 and 2216, 2000/605, 2001/1428 and 3649, 2002/561 and 2469, 2003/631 and 2322, 2004/665 and 696, 2005/661 and 3074, 2006/600 and 2919 and 2007/2054 and 3280, and modified by S.I. 1996/971."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/654/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:19.737134+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."
}