{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.M.9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-2.M.9.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.9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2.M.9",
  "heading": "Provision of information",
  "text": "(1) In order to assess whether the grant of employing authority status to an Independent Provider should continue, the Secretary of State may at any time require an Independent Provider to provide the Secretary of State with information—\n(a) relating to those employed by it who have become officer members of this Section of the scheme pursuant to regulation 2.M.3(7);\n(b) relating to all or any qualifying contracts in respect of which employing authority status was granted or extended;\n(c) relating to the numbers of persons engaged in performing services pursuant to such contracts and the proportion of their time spent in doing so;\n(d) which the Secretary of State considers relevant for that purpose.\n(2) Information referred to in paragraph (1) must be provided within 14 days of the Secretary of State requesting it.\n(3) The Secretary of State may, by notice in writing, require the Independent Provider to provide such information (which does not fall within sub-paragraph (1)) as the Secretary of State considers necessary to determine whether there has been compliance with any provision of these Regulations: the Independent Provider must provide that information within the period specified in that notice.",
  "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)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/2.M.9",
    "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."
}