{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-B1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-B1.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": "regulation/B1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "B1",
  "heading": "Membership of this Section of the scheme",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation B2 (restrictions on membership) and B3 (restriction on further participation in this Section of the scheme), the following persons are eligible to join the scheme—\n(a) officers; and\n(b) medical and dental practitioners and specialist trainees in general practice.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), each eligible person will be included in this Section of the scheme—\n(a) automatically on commencing NHS employment;\n(b) where the person has previously opted out of this Section of the scheme, on the date determined under paragraph (5) of regulation B4 where that paragraph applies: this is subject to regulation B4(6);\n(c) subject to regulation B4(6), where the person has previously opted out of this Section of the scheme and is a person to whom section 3 or section 5 of the 2008 Act applies—\n(i) on that person’s automatic enrolment date, or\n(ii) on that person’s automatic re-enrolment date, except where the notice referred to in regulation B4(1) was given within the 12 months immediately preceding that date.\n(3) A person who, on the coming into force of these Regulations, is not included in this Section of the scheme will not be included in this Section of the scheme automatically, but, if eligible, may join this Section of the scheme by applying on a form provided by the employing authority.\n(3A) A person who was a member of the NBSBPS (including a pensioner or deferred member) on 31st August 2007 may, if the Secretary of State considers it appropriate and regulation R8A applies, be a member of this Section of the scheme.\n(3B) A person—\n(a) who—\n(i) was in pensionable employment on 31 March 2012 but ceased to be so after that date, or\n(ii) ceased NHS employment before 1 April 2012,\n(iii) is not the subject of a direction made under section 7 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967,\n(b) who would, if paragraph (a) did not apply, fall within regulation B3(8G) to (8U), and\n(c) to whom the Treasury’s guidance “Fair Deal for staff pensions: staff transfer from central government” applies,\nmay, if the Secretary of State considers it appropriate and makes a direction under 7 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1967, be a member of this Section of the scheme.\n(4) A person who is included in this Section of the scheme may opt–out at any time in accordance with regulation B4 (opting–out of this Section of the scheme).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. B1(1) inserted (1.7.2009) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/1298), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. B1 inserted (1.10.2009) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2446), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. B1(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2013) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/413), regs. 1(2), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. B1(2) substituted (with effect from 1.3.2013) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/413), regs. 1(2)(5)(b), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. B1(3A) inserted (1.9.2007) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/2054), regs. 1, 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. B1(3B) inserted (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/95), reg. 1(b), Sch. 2 para. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in reg. B1(3B)(b) substituted (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/245), regs. 1(8), 4 (with reg. 105)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/regulation/B1",
    "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."
}