{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.K.8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.K.8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/653",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/2.K.8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.K.8",
  "heading": "Pension debit members",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where, on becoming a member of this Section of the Scheme, a 2008 Section Optant is a pension debit member.\n(2) The amount of the reduction to be made to the Optant’s pension under this Section of the Scheme shall be the amount of the reduction that applied to the Optant’s pension under the 1995 Section calculated in accordance with section 31 of the 1999 Act (reduction of benefit) adjusted by the factor referred to in paragraph (3).\n(3) The factor referred to in paragraph (2) is the factor specified by the Secretary of State for that purpose.\n(4) The Secretary of State may, after taking advice from the Scheme actuary, make such modifications to—\n(a) the Optant’s rights, and\n(b) as to the form of the Optant’s benefits,\nas the Secretary of State considers necessary for the purpose specified in paragraph (5).\n(5) If in the opinion of the Secretary of State, it is necessary for the purpose of giving effect to the pension sharing order to which the Optant’s rights are subject for some or all of the benefits under this Section of the Scheme to be taken in a different form from that in which that Optant would otherwise be entitled to take them, the Secretary of State may modify those benefits as described in paragraph (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ch. 2K inserted (1.10.2009) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2446), regs. 1(2), 52"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/2.K.8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:34:22.381913+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."
}