{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2B/paragraph-72",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/schedule-2B/paragraph-72.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/72",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "72",
  "heading": "Withdrawal of participation in this Section of the scheme",
  "text": "Where after approval as an employing authority pursuant to this Schedule—\n(a) an Independent Provider satisfies one of the other paragraphs of the definition of employing authority in regulation A2 and by virtue of doing so would otherwise become an employing authority for the purposes of these Regulations, and\n(b) that Independent Provider gives the Secretary of State a withdrawal notice, that notice does not affect its employees who would otherwise qualify as members of this Section of the scheme by virtue of paragraph (a) provided always that the Secretary has not terminated that Independent Provider’s status as an employing authority pursuant to paragraph 58(a).",
  "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/72",
    "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."
}