{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-and-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-42",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-and-additional-voluntary-contributions-amendment-regulations-2017/regulation-42.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/42",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "42",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 150",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 150 (interpretation) is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (3), substitute—\n“(3) A qualifying contract is a contract between a relevant commissioning party and an independent provider the primary purpose of which is the provision of clinical health care services for the NHS and which is—\n(a) an NHS standard contract;\n(b) an APMS contract;\n(c) a contract entered into by a local authority pursuant to its functions under the 2006 Act relating to the improvement and protection of public health and which the Secretary of State agrees to treat as a qualifying contract for these purposes; or\n(d) an NHS standard sub-contract.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/275/regulation/42",
    "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."
}