{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-39",
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  "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/39",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "39",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation L2",
  "text": "For paragraph (3) of regulation L2 (refund of contributions) substitute—\n“(3) If the member’s employment was contracted-out by reference to the scheme, the member (and the member’s spouse or civil partner, if any) will remain entitled to a guaranteed minimum pension and section 9(2B) rights under the scheme, unless the Secretary of State discharges her liability in respect of that entitlement by paying a contributions equivalent premium under section 55(2) of the 1993 Act.”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 39 in force at 1.4.2008, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/654/regulation/39",
    "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."
}