# The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995, Paragraph 9A: Locum practitioners: breaks between contracts


(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 this 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/schedule/2/paragraph/9A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2/paragraph-9A
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