{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-4.B.1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2008/regulation-4.B.1.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/4.B.1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4.B.1",
  "heading": "Application of Chapter 4.B",
  "text": "(1) This Chapter identifies the calculation method under which the benefits payable in respect of discrete periods of pensionable service as an officer are to be compared against the benefits that would have been payable had that service been service as a practitioner.\n(2) The discrete periods of pensionable service as an officer that are subject to comparison are any periods of—\n(a) up to 10 years of pensionable service as an officer before first becoming a ... practitioner,\n(b) more than 10 years of pensionable service as an officer before first becoming a ... practitioner,\n(c) up to 1 year of employment as an officer after last ceasing to be a practitioner,\n(d) more than 1 year of employment as an officer after ceasing to be a practitioner,\n(e) less than 1 year of pensionable service as an officer concurrently with pensionable service as a practitioner, and\n(f) more than 1 year of pensionable service as an officer concurrently with pensionable service as a practitioner.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 4.B.1(2)(a)(b) omitted (1.10.2009) by virtue of The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2446), regs. 1(2), 96"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/653/regulation/4.B.1",
    "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."
}