{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-scheme-transitional-and-consequential-provisions-regulations-2015/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of Schedule 2",
  "text": "For paragraph 17A of Schedule 2, substitute—\n“17A. Regulation L1(14) is modified so that—\n(a) paragraph (b) in the definition of “NHS employment” reads—\n“(b) the 2015 Scheme and that member has a break of service under the 2015 Regulations that exceeds five years.”; and\n(b) the definition of “regular employment of like duration” reads—\n““regular employment of like duration” means such employment as the Secretary of State considers would involve a similar level of engagement to the member’s pensionable service as a practitioner immediately before that service ceased.””.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Paragraph 17A was inserted by S.I. 2008/654."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/95/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}