{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-58.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/94",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/58",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Making an additional pension election",
  "text": "(1) An additional pension election by a member (M) must be made by written notice to the scheme manager stating whether additional pension contributions are to be paid—\n(a) as a lump sum; or\n(b) by periodic payments.\n(2) An additional pension election by M's employing authority must be made by written notice to the scheme manager.\n(3) A notice under this regulation must be accompanied by a declaration by M that M is in good health.\n(4) An additional pension election must not be made at any time when M is absent from work for any reason.\n(5) For the purposes of this Chapter—\n(a) a member is treated as having made an additional pension election on the date on which the employing authority receives the member’s notice under paragraph (1); and\n(b) an employing authority is treated as having made an additional pension election on the date on which the scheme manager receives the authority’s notice under paragraph (2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 58(5) inserted (with effect in accordance with reg. 1(2)(a) of the amending S.I.) by The National Health Service Pension Scheme and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/275), regs. 2(c), 33"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/regulation/58",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:26.680467+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."
}