{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2B/paragraph-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2B/paragraph-58.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/2B/paragraph/58",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Termination of employing authority status by Secretary of State",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may terminate an Independent Provider’s status as an employing authority in any of the following circumstances—\n(a) where the Independent Provider subsequently acquires the status of an employing authority specified in any of the paragraphs, other than paragraph (o), of the definition of “employing authority” in regulation A2: in such a case the Independent Provider ceases to be an employing authority as an Independent Provider by virtue of paragraph (o) of that definition but not otherwise;\n(b) where all of the employees of the Independent Provider who have acquired membership of this Section of the Scheme pursuant to paragraph 19 cease to satisfy the wholly or mainly condition;\n(c) where the Independent Provider fails to review, in accordance with paragraph 9, the amount of cover guaranteed by its IP guarantee or, having carried out such a review fails to increase the amount of cover guaranteed by the IP guarantee where such an increase is required;\n(d) where, following the issue of a default notice, the Independent Provider fails to pay to the Secretary of State the amount specified in that notice by the date specified in it;\n(e) where paragraph 10 applies and the Independent Provider fails to take the action required by sub-paragraph (a) and (b) of that paragraph within the specified period;\n(f) where an Independent Provider fails to provide information in accordance with paragraph 54 and the Secretary of State is not satisfied that the information so provided supports the continuation of the Independent Provider’s status as an employing authority;\n(g) where an Independent Provider fails to provide information in accordance with paragraph 56;\n(h) where an Independent Provider fails to notify the Secretary of State that the guarantor of any its IP guarantees has withdrawn or revoked it;\n(i) where an Independent Provider has in any three years in any five year period exceeded the 75% threshold;\n(j) where an Independent Provider otherwise has a history or pattern of exceeding the 75% threshold .",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2B inserted (1.4.2014) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/570), regs. 1(2), 17 (with reg. 49)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/300/schedule/2B/paragraph/58",
    "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."
}