{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-Q2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-Q2.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/Q2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "Q2",
  "heading": "Right to buy an unreduced retirement lump sum",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the provisions of this regulation and regulations Q3(2) and (6) (electing to buy unreduced retirement lump sum), Q5 (paying by single payment), and Q6 (paying by regular additional contributions), a member in pensionable employment whose pensionable service started before 25th March 1972 and who is, or has been, married ..., may make payments to this Section of the scheme to off–set all or part of any reduction in the lump sum payable to the member under regulation E6 (lump sum on retirement).\n(2) The member may choose to pay for an unreduced retirement lump sum by making a single payment in accordance with regulation Q5 or by making regular additional contributions in accordance with regulation Q6 or partly in one way and partly in the other.\n(3) The member must exercise the right to buy an unreduced retirement lump sum within the time limits described in regulation Q5 or, as the case may be, regulation Q6 and before the lump sum becomes payable.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. Q2(1) omitted (1.4.2008) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 46"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. Q2(1) 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": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Regs. Q1-Q6 continued (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/95), regs. 1(b), 22(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Pt. Q restricted (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)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/regulation/Q2",
    "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."
}