{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-T7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-T7.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/T7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "T7",
  "heading": "Commutation of trivial pensions",
  "text": "(1) Where a person has become entitled to a pension of a trivial amount, the Secretary of State may pay to that person a lump sum representing the capital value of that pension and of any benefits that might otherwise have become payable on that person’s death.\n(2) Any lump sum payable under this regulation will be calculated by the Secretary of State, after taking advice from the Scheme Actuary.\n(3) A pension may be treated as trivial only if all benefits payable under this Section of the scheme to the person concerned are of an amount consistent with—\n(a) the preservation requirements; and\n(b) either—\n(i) the lump sum rule and lump sum death benefit rule, or\n(ii) the requirements of regulation 12 of the Registered Pension Schemes (Authorised Payments) Regulations 2009 (payments by larger pension schemes).\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(5) A payment made under paragraph (1) shall discharge the Secretary of State’s liability in respect of that pension and of any benefits that might otherwise have become payable on that person’s death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. T7(2) substituted (14.12.2007) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits, Additional Voluntary Contributions and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/3280), regs. 1(2), 2(21)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. T7(3) substituted (6.4.2006) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/600), regs. 1(2)(b), 19(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. T7(3) 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": "Reg. T7(3)(a) substituted (6.4.2016) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/245), regs. 1(3), 16 (with reg. 105)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. T7(3)(b) substituted (28.11.2011) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (S.I. 2011/2586), regs. 1(2), 10"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. T7(4) omitted (6.4.2006) by virtue of The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions) Amendment Regulations 2006 (S.I. 2006/600), regs. 1(2)(b), 19(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/regulation/T7",
    "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."
}