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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-77",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2015/94",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/77",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "77",
  "heading": "Entitlement day",
  "text": "(1) The entitlement day for the purposes of an age retirement pension is—\n(a) if the member (M) is in NHS employment on the day on which M reaches normal pension age—\n(i) the day after M ceases to be in pensionable employment; or\n(ii) the day on which M reaches the age of 75;\n(b) if M is not in NHS employment on the day on which M reaches normal pension age, that day.\n(2) If regulation 97 applies to M, for the purposes of M's entitlement to a pension in respect of old employment (within the meaning of regulation 100(3)) a reference in this regulation to M ceasing to be in NHS employment must be treated as a reference to M ceasing to be in the old employment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/94/regulation/77",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:41.764515+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."
}