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(1)

This regulation applies to a member (M) if, during the scheme years 2015/16 to 2023/24—

(a)

the terms of M’s employment contract required M to work less than whole-time, according to those terms, for any period of time; and

(b)

M received a relevant payment.

(2)

M, or if M is deceased, M’s personal representatives, may elect for all relevant payments to be included as pensionable earnings for the purposes of regulation 27.

(3)

M’s employing authority must, before 1st January 2026, or in exceptional circumstances such later time as the scheme manager decides, send a notice in writing to M, or as the case may be, M’s personal representatives, that they may make an election under paragraph (2).

(4)

The notice referred to in paragraph (3) must specify the amount of contributions M and M’s employing authority will be required to pay, and the amount of pensionable earnings M will be entitled to in respect of those contributions, if M or as the case may be, M’s personal representatives, makes an election under paragraph (2).

(5)

An election under paragraph (2) must be—

(a)

made—

(i)

by M or as the case may be, M’s personal representatives, in writing in such form and including such information as M’s employing authority requires; and

(ii)

in respect of all relevant payments received by M; and

(b)

received by M’s employing authority before—

(i)

the end of the period of three months beginning with the day on which M is provided with the notice under paragraph (3); or

(ii)

such later date before 1st July 2026 as M’s employing authority considers reasonable in all the circumstances.

(6)

For the purposes of this regulation, a relevant payment means so much of a payment of salary, wages, fees or other regular payment made to M by the employing authority—

(a)

in respect of work undertaken by M during the scheme years 2015/16 to 2023/24 that was in excess of the work required by the terms of their employment contract described in paragraph (1)(a) up to the whole-time equivalent according to the terms of the member’s employment contract; and

(b)

that was treated by M’s employing authority as a payment for overtime for the purposes of regulation 27.

(7)

Where M, or as the case may be, M’s personal representatives, has made an election under paragraph (2), M will be treated as if they had also made an election under whichever of regulations C1(14) of the 1995 Regulations (meaning of “pensionable pay” and “final year’s pensionable pay”) or regulation 2.A.8(13) of the 2008 Regulations (meaning of “pensionable pay”) applies to M.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 27A inserted (1.4.2025) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/316), regs. 1(2), 23