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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-47",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-47.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/47",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "47",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation Q4",
  "text": "(1) Regulation Q4 (paying for additional service by single payment) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—\n“(1) A member who wishes to buy additional service for all or part of the member’s previous pensionable service in accordance with regulation Q1(9) by a single payment must elect to do so within 12 months of re-joining the scheme following the break in pensionable employment described in that regulation.”.\n(3) Omit paragraph (2).\n(4) For paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) The amount of a single payment for additional service will be one-half of the cost calculated in accordance with Table 1 of Schedule 1.”.\n(5) Omit paragraph (7).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 47 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/47",
    "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."
}