{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/804",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Superannuation) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "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 “participating employment” there is inserted the following definition–\n“`pay period' means the period set out in the officer’s contract of employment in respect of which each payment of salary or wages is made or, in the case of a practitioner, a period of 3 months ending on the last day of March, June, September or December as the case may be;”;\n(b) after the definition of “pensionable age” there is inserted the following definition–\n“`personal pension scheme' shall be construed in accordance with section 84 of the Social Security Act 1986;”;\n(c) after the definition of “retiring allowance” there is inserted the following definition–\n“`self-employed pension arrangement' means a personal pension scheme within the meaning of Chapter IV of Part XIV of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 which is approved by the Inland Revenue under that Chapter; but which is neither a personal pension scheme within the meaning of the Social Security Act 1986 nor a contract or a scheme approved under Chapter III of Part XIV of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;”;\n(d) in the definition of “service” for the words “18 years” there are substituted the words “16 years”; and at the end of sub-paragraph (c) there is inserted the word “or” and after that sub-paragraph there is added–\n“(d) any period of employment subject to an election made under regulation 6(2);”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1988 c. 1."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/804/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:44:39.060297+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."
}