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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-8/paragraph-1",
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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": "schedule/8/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Retention arrangement",
  "text": "For the purposes of this Schedule, a retention arrangement is one under which—\n(a) a person (P) is seconded from an employing authority (“the sending employing authority”) to another body which is not an employing authority (“the other body”); and\n(b) P, pursuant to an intention of the sending employing authority, remains an employee of that authority in circumstances where P's performance of services pursuant to a qualifying contract for the other body counts as pensionable service only by reason of the retention arrangement.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/schedule/8/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}