{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1987/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1987/2218",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation) Amendment Regulations 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1987",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 3 of the principal Regulations",
  "text": "In regulation 3 of the principal Regulations (definitions)—\n(a) after the definition of “appointed day” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““appropriate policy” means a policy of insurance or annuity contract which provides an annuity which satisfies requirements prescribed under paragraph 13(2)(b) of Schedule 1A to the Pensions Act;”;\n(b) in the definition of “mental health officer” for “any medical specialist who devotes” there shall be substituted “a maximum part-time specialist as defined in regulation 78(3) who devotes the whole or”;\n(c) after the definition of “statutory scheme” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““superannuation scheme” means an “occupational pension scheme” within the meaning of section 66(1) of the Pensions Act;”;\n(d) in the definition of “temporary additional session” after “extra notional half-day” there shall be added “, or in the case of a specialist to whom sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 78(3) applies any session in excess of 10 in any one week regardless of its length,”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Schedule 1A was inserted by section 2 of, and Schedule 1 to, the Social Security Act 1985 (c. 53), and is amended by section 86 of, and paragraphs 29 and 30 of Schedule 10 to, the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50). Paragraph 13 is modified by the Personal and Occupational Pension Schemes (Modification of Enactments) Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/1116)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1987/2218/regulation/2",
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  },
  "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."
}