{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-Q4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-Q4.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/Q4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "Q4",
  "heading": "Paying for additional service by single payment",
  "text": "(1) A member who wishes to buy additional service for all or part of the member’s previous pensionable service in accordance with regulation Q1(9) by a single payment must elect to do so within 12 months of re-joining this Section of the scheme following the break in pensionable employment described in that regulation.\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) The amount of a single payment for additional service will be one-half of the cost calculated in accordance with Table 1 of Schedule 1.\n(4) For the purposes of Table 1 of Schedule 1, “remuneration\" means, subject to paragraph (5), the yearly average of a member’s pensionable pay (ignoring any reduction or cessation of earnings as a result of absence or otherwise) in respect of the 3 months’ pensionable employment immediately preceding the date on which the member elects to buy the additional service or unreduced retirement lump sum.\n(5) If the member has not been in pensionable employment for 3 months before electing to buy the additional service or unreduced retirement lump sum, “remunera–tion\" means the yearly average of the member’s pensionable pay in respect of the first 3 months’ pensionable employment.\n(6) The member must make any single payment for additional service within 3 months after electing to do so or, if later, within 6 months after starting pensionable employment.\n(7) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. Q4(1) substituted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 47(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. Q4(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": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Reg. Q4(2) omitted (1.4.2008) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 47(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. Q4(3) substituted (1.4.2008) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 47(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. Q4(7) omitted (1.4.2008) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. 2008/654), regs. 1(2), 47(5)"
    },
    {
      "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/Q4",
    "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."
}