Regulation 22 Amendment of regulation 3.A.1

(1)

Regulation 3.A.1 (interpretation of part 3: general) is amended as follows.

(2)

At the appropriate place in the alphabetical order, insert—

““the 2014 Act” means the Public Service Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2014”

““scheme administration charge” means the charge provided for in regulation 3.C.3A.”.

(3)

In the definition of “NHS standard contract”^f1—

(a)

for “standard commissioning contract”, substitute “terms and conditions”;

(b)

before “2012”, insert “Regulations”.

(4)

In the definition of “NHS standard sub-contract”^f2, for “2015/16” substitute “2016/17”^f3.

(5)

In sub-paragraph (c) of the definition of “practice staff”^f4, after “NHS standard sub-contract”, insert “where the party to the NHS standard contract in question is an employing authority”.

(6)

In the definition of “qualifying contract”, after sub-paragraph (c), insert—

“; or

(d)

an NHS standard sub-contract;”.

(7)

In paragraph (2), in the definition of “host Board” for “administration charge” substitute “scheme administration charge under regulation 3.C.3A^f5 and any supplementary charge”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: This definition was inserted by regulations 36(1) and (2)(b) of S.I. 2014/570.
f2: This definition was inserted by regulations 20 and 39(e) of S.I. 2016/245.
f3: 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.
f4: This definition was substituted by regulations 20 and 39(e) of S.I. 2016/245.
f5: Regulation 3.C.3A is inserted by these Regulations.