{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1976/1451",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (National Health Service) Regulations 1976",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons to whom these regulations apply",
  "text": "(1) These regulations shall apply to any person who has attained age 70 or ceased to be employed by an employing authority; and\n(a) immediately before attaining that age or ceasing to be so employed—\n(i) was in that employment subject to a superannuation scheme; and\n(ii) had completed the minimum period of reckonable service and had satisfied any other requirements which would qualify a person for a pension under the Regulations either—\n(A) immediately upon ceasing such employment; or\n(B) subsequently upon reaching such age as is specified in the Regulations; and\n(b) unless he is or was a regulation 75(1) optant has received or has become entitled to receive payment of any retirement benefit under a superannuation scheme; and\n(c) either—\n(i) has attained the age of 55 years and, in the case of a person to whom paragraph (1)(a)(ii)(B) of this regulation applies, has attained the specified age; or\n(ii) has retired on account of physical or mental infirmity, or has satisfied the Secretary of State that he is disabled by physical or mental infirmity; or\n(iii) is a woman who has at least one dependant.\n(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1) of this regulation, in the case of a person to whom paragraph (1)(a)(ii)(B) of this regulation applies who, within 12 months of ceasing to be employed by an employing authority, or as a regulation 75(1) optant, enters into any of the employments specified in paragraph 2 of the schedule to these regulations in respect of which the requirements of paragraph 3(a) of that schedule have been fulfilled, these regulations insofar as they apply to a person who has not attained age 70 shall apply only in respect of any further termination of employment under an employing authority and not in respect of any previous termination.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1989/711",
      "affecting_title": "The Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (National Health Service) Amendment Regulations 1989"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1976/1451/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:19:36.372851+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."
}