# The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2008, Regulation 3.H.5: Meaning of “previous earnings”: general

Extent: E+W

(1) For the purposes of this Chapter an employed pensioner’s previous earnings is the average of the annual amounts of the member’s earnings in respect of practitioner service (or service which is treated as practitioner service) uprated to the date of entitlement to the pension in accordance with regulation 3.D.1(4)(b) and adjusted in each financial year for inflation.
(2) The reference in paragraph (1) to adjusting that amount in each financial year for inflation is to increasing it by the same amount as that by which an annual pension equal to that amount would have been increased under the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 at 6th April in that financial year if—
(a) that pension was eligible to be so increased, and
(b) the beginning date for that pension were the same as the beginning date for the old service pension.
(3) In this regulation “the beginning date”, in relation to a pension, means the date on which it is treated as beginning for the purposes of the Pensions (Increase) Act 1971 (see section 8(2) of that Act).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/3.H.5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-3.H.5
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