Paragraph 9A Locum practitioners: breaks between contractsF1

(1)

Paragraph (4A) of regulation C3 does not apply and this paragraph applies instead where a locum practitioner ceases to be engaged as such a practitioner and so ceases to be treated as being in pensionable employment and is re-engaged as such a practitioner before the expiry of a period not exceeding three months from the day on which he so ceases.

(2)

For the purposes of these Regulations—

(a)

he is treated as continuing to be in qualifying service during the period whilst he is not so engaged and as not being required to rejoin F2this Section of the scheme at the time when he becomes so re-engaged, but

(b)

that period does not count as practitioner service (or as a period in pensionable employment).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Sch. 2 para. 9A inserted (1.4.2001) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/561), reg. 1(1)(a), Sch. para. 10(10) (with reg. 3)
F2: Words in Sch. 2 para. 9A(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