{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-24.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/316",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-pension-schemes-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/24",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 28",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 28 (pensionable earnings: break in service) is amended as follows.\n(2) After paragraph (2)(e) omit “or”.\n(3) After paragraph (2)(f) insert—\n“; or\n(g) neonatal care leave”.\n(4) In paragraph (6)(b), for “(f)” substitute “(g)”.\n(5) After paragraph (6)(b) insert—\n“;\n(c) for any period while M is within paragraph (2)(b) to (g) and M's earnings are immediately reduced to zero”.\n(6) In paragraph (7)(a)—\n(a) for “a woman on maternity leave” substitute “M”;\n(b) for “she” substitute “M”.\n(7) After paragraph (7) insert—\n“(7A) For the purposes of paragraph (6)(c)—\n(a) pay received by M in respect of days during which M returns to work for the purpose of keeping in touch with the workplace must be ignored;\n(b) earnings reduced to zero are treated as if they were the amount equal to the rate of M’s pensionable earnings immediately before the period of absence.”.\n(8) In paragraph (10)(b)—\n(a) for “(f)” substitute “(g)”;\n(b) after “(6)(b)” insert “or (c)”.\n(9) In paragraph (10)(c), after “(7)” insert “and (7A)”.\n(10) In paragraph (12) omit “maternity”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 28 was amended by S.I. 2020/354 and 2024/281."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/316/regulation/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:56.261315+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."
}