{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-73",
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  "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/73",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "73",
  "heading": "Entitlement to age retirement pension",
  "text": "(1) A member is entitled to payment of an age retirement pension from the entitlement day if the member—\n(a) has reached normal pension age;\n(b) is qualified for retirement benefits or the member ceases pensionable service after reaching normal pension age;\n(c) has left all NHS employment or reached age 75; and\n(d) has applied under paragraph 4 of Schedule 3 for the payment of an age retirement pension.\n(2) An age retirement pension is payable for life.\n(3) This regulation does not apply to a pension derived from pension credit rights (see section 101B of the 1993 Act ).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "Section 101B was inserted by section 37 of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c.30)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/regulation/73",
    "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."
}