{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-and-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-and-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-12.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/275",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-and-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/12",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 2.A.1",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 2.A.1 (interpretation: general) is amended as follows.\n(2) At the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, insert—\n““the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014.;”\n““scheme administration charge” means the charge provided for in regulation 2.C.6A.”\n(3) In the definition of “NHS standard contract”—\n(a) for “standard commissioning contract”, substitute “terms and conditions”;\n(b) before “2012”, insert “Regulations”.\n(4) In the definition of “NHS standard sub-contract”, for “2015/16” substitute “2016/17”.\n(5) In sub-paragraph (c) of the definition of “practice staff”, after “NHS standard sub-contract”\ninsert “where the party to the NHS standard contract in question is an employing authority”.\n(6) In the definition of “qualifying contract”, after sub-paragraph (c), insert—\n“; or\n(d) an NHS standard sub-contract;”.\n(7) In sub-paragraph (b)(ii) of paragraph (2A), for “administration charge” substitute “scheme administration charge under regulation 2.C.6A and any supplementary charge”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2014 c.2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "This definition was inserted by regulation 20(b)(ii) of S.I. 2014/570."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "This definition was inserted by regulations 20 and 21(e) of S.I. 2014/245."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Electronic copies of the guidance referred to in that definition can be obtained from www.gov.uk/dh. Hard copies may be obtained from the Department of Health, Quarry House, Quarry Hill, Leeds LS2 7UE."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "This definition was inserted by regulation 20(b)(ii) of S.I. 2014/570."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "This paragraph was inserted by S.I. 2014/570."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "Regulation 2.C.6A is inserted by these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/275/regulation/12",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:14:02.697107+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."
}