{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/regulation-6.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/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Payments of benefits equivalent to statutory pension increases",
  "text": "The Secretary of State shall, in respect of any period beginning on or after 1st March 1975 in relation to a regulation 75(1) optant or 1st December 1974 in relation to any other person, pay to a person to whom these regulations apply amounts equal to the benefits which would have been conferred on him by the Act of 1971 if—\n(a) he had been eligible under the principal civil service pension scheme within the meaning of section 2 of the Superannuation Act 1972 for a pension of the same amount as his notional pension as calculated under paragraphs (1) to (6) of regulation 5 of these regulations, or a lump sum of the same amount as his notional lump sum retiring allowance as calculated under paragraph (7) of regulation 5 of these regulations, or both such pension and lump sum, as the case may be, beginning on the day after the last day of his reckonable service excluding any period specified in paragraph 1(c) of the schedule to these regulations; and\n(b) any allowance which, but for the Act of 1971, would have been paid to him under the Pensions Increase (Approved Schemes) (National Health Service) Regulations 1968, as amended, were a relevant increase within the meaning of section 6(10) of that Act.",
  "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/6",
    "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."
}