{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-96",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/regulation-96.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/96",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "96",
  "heading": "Renewed entitlement to Tier 2 IHP",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a member (M) who—\n(a) has not attained normal pension age; and\n(b) has ceased to be entitled to a Tier 2 IHP by virtue of regulation 95(4).\n(2) M may apply to the scheme manager under this regulation to become entitled to a Tier 2 IHP if—\n(a) M is in further NHS employment and ceases to be employed at all during the initial period; or\n(b) M is in further employment that is not NHS employment and ceases to be employed in that further employment within a period of one year beginning with the day on which the further employment ceased to be an excluded employment.\n(3) An application to which paragraph (2)(a) applies must—\n(a) state that M has ceased to be employed at all;\n(b) be made within the initial period;\n(c) be in writing and be accompanied by evidence from a registered medical practitioner that M has the physical or mental infirmity mentioned in regulation 90(3)(b).\n(4) An application to which paragraph (2)(b) applies must—\n(a) state that M has ceased to be employed at all;\n(b) be made within the period of one year beginning with the day on which the employment ceased to be an excluded employment;\n(c) be in writing and be accompanied by evidence from a registered medical practitioner that M has the physical or mental infirmity mentioned in regulation 90(3)(b).\n(5) If the scheme manager is satisfied that M has the physical or mental infirmity mentioned in regulation 90(3)(b), from the day following that on which M's last employment ceased—\n(a) M ceases to be treated as entitled to the Tier 1 IHP; and\n(b) M becomes entitled to a Tier 2 IHP in respect of the earlier service.\n(6) Expressions used in this regulation and in regulation 95 have the same meaning as in that regulation.",
  "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/96",
    "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."
}