{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/300",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE, ENGLAND AND WALES\nMade 8th February 1995\nLaid before Parliament 10th February 1995\nComing into force 6th March 1995\nThe Secretary of State for Health, in exercise of her powers under sections 10(1), (2) and (3) and 12(1) and (2) of, and Schedule 3 to, the Superannuation Act 1972 and of all other powers enabling her in that behalf, after consulting such representatives of persons likely to be affected by these Regulations as appear to her to be appropriate, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Regulations—",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1972 c.11. Section 10(1)(a) was amended by Schedule 5 to the National Health Service Reorganisation Act 1973 (c.32)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "Seesection 10(4) of the Superannuation Act 1972."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "Seesection 10(1) of the Superannuation Act 1972 and article 2 of the Transfer of Functions (Minister for Civil Service and Treasury) Order 1981 (S.I. 1981/1670)."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regulations applied (with modifications) (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/95), regs. 1(b), 25(7)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Regulations applied (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/95), regs. 1(b), 14(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Regulations applied (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/95), regs. 1(b), 25(8)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Regulations modified (temp.) (25.3.2022 immediately after the expiry of 2020 c. 7, s. 45) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Member Contributions etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/273), regs. 1(2), 10 (with reg. 9) (as amended (31.10.2022) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Member Contributions etc.) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1028), regs. 1(2), 2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:17:02.304130+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."
}