{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-15.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/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation F1",
  "text": "(1) Regulation F1 (member dies in pensionable employment) is amended as follows.\n(2) In paragraph (1) for “70”, substitute “75”.\n(3) In paragraph (1A)(c) after “pay contributions”, insert “from a date that falls before 1st April 2008”.\n(4) After paragraph (1A) insert—\n“(1B) A lump sum on death shall be payable in accordance with regulation F5 where, on the day the member died, the member is—\n(a) under the age of 75 if not a special class officer or under the age of 70 if a special class officer;\n(b) in NHS employment;\n(c) no longer required to pay contributions from a date that falls on or after 1 April 2008 pursuant to regulation D1(3) or (4) (contributions by members), and\n(d) except where regulations E2(11), E2A(11) or R4(6) apply, not in receipt of a pension under any of regulations E1 to E5.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph (1) was amended by S.I.2006/600."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/654/regulation/15",
    "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."
}