{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-17A.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/17A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Preserved pension",
  "text": "Regulation L1(14) is modified so that—\n(a) paragraph (b) in the definition of “NHS employment” reads—\n“(b) the 2015 Scheme and that member has a break of service under the 2015 Regulations that exceeds five years.”; and\n(b) the definition of “regular employment of like duration” reads—\n““regular employment of like duration” means such employment as the Secretary of State considers would involve a similar level of engagement to the member’s pensionable service as a practitioner immediately before that service ceased.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 17A substituted (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. 8"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/schedule/2/paragraph/17A",
    "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."
}