{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2A/paragraph-3A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2A/paragraph-3A.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/2A/paragraph/3A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3A",
  "heading": "Pension credit benefit before attaining normal benefit age (with actuarial reduction)",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a pension credit member shall be entitled to the payment of the pension credit benefit described in paragraph 3 of this Schedule on or after attaining normal minimum pension age but before attaining normal benefit age.\n(2) The pension and the lump sum (if any) described in that paragraph will be reduced by such amount as the Secretary of State, after taking the advice of the Scheme Actuary, may determine.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2A inserted (1.5.2001) by The National Health Service (Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions) (Pension Sharing) Amendment Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/1428), reg. 1, Sch. 1 para. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 2A paras. 3A, 3B inserted (with effect from 6.4.2009) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Injury Benefits (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/381), regs. 1(2)(3)(a), 14(4) (with reg. 89)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/schedule/2A/paragraph/3A",
    "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."
}