# The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015, Paragraph 1: Retention arrangement


For the purposes of this Schedule, a retention arrangement is one under which—
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/94/schedule/8/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-regulations-2015/schedule-8/paragraph-1
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