{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2008/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2008/226",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-superannuation-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation E1",
  "text": "(1) Regulation E1 (normal retirement pension) is amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation E1(2), for “70” substitute “75”.\n(3) After paragraph (2) insert–\n“(3) Subject to paragraph (4), where a member who leaves pensionable employment on or after 1st April 2008 becomes entitled to a pension under this regulation, the Scottish Ministers may discharge their liability for that pension by the payment of a lump sum of an amount consistent–\n(a) with the contracting-out and preservation requirements of the 1993 Act; and\n(b) the lump sum rule.\n(4) A lump sum payment under paragraph (3) may be made only if the Scottish Ministers are satisfied that it is appropriate in all the circumstances having regard to the life expectancy of the member.\n(5) For the purposes of paragraph (4), the Scottish Ministers may require whatever medical evidence they consider necessary.\n(6) The amount of the lump sum payable under paragraph (3)–\n(a) is equal to 5 times the yearly rate of the member’s pension (calculated in accordance with this regulation); and\n(b) is payable in addition to the lump sum on retirement payable under regulation E7 (which is not subject to any reduction under regulation E8(1)) and the lump sum in place of part of a pension payable under regulation E11.\n(7) For the purposes of calculating the amount of the lump sum payable under paragraph (6), the member will be treated as if he had made an election under regulation E11 to receive the maximum amount of a further lump sum payable under that regulation.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/226/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:06:32.504835+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."
}