{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-17A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015/regulation-17A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/95",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/17A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "17A",
  "heading": "Final salary link: non-pensionable old scheme members",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if benefits under the old scheme payable to or in respect of a non-pensionable old scheme member are to be calculated by reference to that member’s final salary as determined in accordance with Schedule 7 to the 2013 Act (“the member’s final salary link”).\n(2) Where this regulation applies, the benefits under the old scheme payable to or in respect of the member may be calculated without reference to the member’s final salary link if it would be more beneficial to the member or other beneficiary to do so.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 17A inserted (1.10.2023) by The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Partial Retirement etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/952), regs. 1(2), 31"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/95/regulation/17A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:25.608482+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."
}