{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-85",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-85.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/85",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "85",
  "heading": "Effect of election",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if a member (M) makes an election under regulation 84.\n(2) M is entitled—\n(a) if M has reached normal pension age, to immediate payment of the specified percentage of the pension to which M would be entitled by virtue of regulation 73(1) if M had ceased to be employed in one or more employments on election day;\n(b) if M has not reached normal pension age, to immediate payment of the specified percentage of the pension to which M would be entitled by virtue of regulation 79 if M had ceased to be employed in one or more employments on election day; and\n(c) if the election specifies that M claims immediate payment of additional pension, to the additional pension subject—\n(i) where sub-paragraph (a) applies, to an increase of the same amount as would be made in that pension pursuant to paragraph 2 of Schedule 13 if M had ceased to be employed on the election day; and\n(ii) where sub-paragraph (b) applies, to a reduction of the same amount as would have been made in that pension pursuant to regulation 79 if M had so ceased to be employed.\n(3) For the purposes of this Part—\n(a) M is a pensioner member as respects—\n(i) the pension to which M is immediately entitled as a result of making the election; and\n(ii) the specified percentage of the pensionable service that pension represents, in respect of which M is an active member on the election day;\n(b) if M continues in pensionable service after the election day, M is an active member as respects—\n(i) the pensionable service after that day in which M continues; and\n(ii) so much of the pensionable service in respect of which M is an active member as is not within sub-paragraph (a) (the unspecified service); and\n(c) if M does not continue in pensionable service after the election day, M is a deferred member as respects the unspecified service.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/regulation/85",
    "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."
}