{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-K7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-K7.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/K7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "K7",
  "heading": "State scheme premiums",
  "text": "(1) The Secretary of State may discharge the liability to provide any guaranteed minimum pension by paying a state scheme premium under section 55 of the 1993 Act or article 3 of the 2016 Order.\n(2) Where a member, or a member’s widow, widower or surviving civil partner, is entitled to a pension under this Section of the scheme in respect of a period for which a contributions equivalent premium has been paid under section 55 of the 1993 Act or article 3 of the 2016 Order, the pension will be reduced by the amount of the guaranteed minimum pension that would have been payable under this Section of the scheme to the member, widow, widower or surviving civil partner, as the case may be, if the contributions equivalent premium had not been paid.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. K7(1) substituted (6.4.2019) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/418), regs. 1(3), 29(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. K7(2) substituted (5.12.2005) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Civil Partnership) Amendment Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/3074), regs. 1, 2(18)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. K7(2) 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": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. K7(2) substituted (6.4.2019) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/418), regs. 1(3), 29(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/regulation/K7",
    "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."
}