{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.M.7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.M.7.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.M.7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.M.7",
  "heading": "Default Notices",
  "text": "(1) Where, in respect of a qualifying contract, an Independent Provider does not pay the Secretary of State, on the due date, all of the contributions which it is liable to pay under regulations 2.C.1, 2.C.5, 2.C.6, 2.C.8, 2.C.10 or 2.C.11, the Secretary of State must issue a default notice to that Independent Provider.\n(2) A default notice must notify the Independent Provider—\n(a) of any charges accrued or accruing in accordance with regulation 2.J.9A;\n(b) that continued non-payment of the contributions will result in the Secretary of State terminating the Independent Provider’s employing authority status on the day following the end of the second month following the month for which the contributions are due but not paid.\n(3) The Secretary of State must provide the commissioning party to the qualifying contract referred to in paragraph (1) with a copy of any default notice issued to an Independent Provider.\n(4) Where, one month after issue of a default notice, some or all of the contributions referred to in paragraph (1) remain unpaid, the Secretary of State must—\n(a) notify the commissioning party to a qualifying contract referred to in sub-paragraph (1) of that non-payment specifying the period or periods for which contributions are outstanding and the amount or amounts outstanding, and\n(b) request that commissioning party to consider withholding from any payments it is due to pay to the Independent Provider in pursuance of any qualifying contract, an amount equal to the amount of the unpaid contributions and to pay that amount to the Secretary of State.\n(5) Where the Secretary of State receives an amount from the commissioning party pursuant to paragraph 4(b), the Secretary of State must—\n(a) give that commissioning party a written receipt of such payment;\n(b) notify the Independent Provider in writing that a sum equal to the amount of its unpaid contributions has been withheld pursuant to paragraph 4(b) and paid to the Secretary of State by the commissioning party pursuant to that paragraph.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ch. 2.M inserted (1.4.2014) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/570), regs. 1(2), 35 (with reg. 49)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2.M.7(3) substituted (1.4.2015) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/96), regs. 1(2), 38"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/2.M.7",
    "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."
}