{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/schedule/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/schedule/paragraph-1.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": "schedule/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Subject to the provisions of this schedule, a person's reckonable service shall be—\n(a) in the case of a person who has ceased to be employed as a regulation 75(1) optant, a period equivalent to the aggregate of any periods of employment as such an optant, or as an optant subject to corresponding provisions in force in Scotland or Northern Ireland; or\n(b) in any other case, a period equivalent to the aggregate of any periods of employment which—\n(i) have been spent in any employment described in paragraph 2 of this schedule; and\n(ii) have become reckonable under a superannuation scheme as described in paragraph 3 of this schedule; and either\n(c) where he is or was entitled to an annual sum under the retirement regulations, the period by which his reckonable service was increased under regulation 5 of those regulations or the period during which contributions are deemed to have been paid under regulation 8(2)(b) of those regulations, as the case may be; or\n(d) where he is a person to whom Part V of the compensation regulations applies or has applied, the period of service which was credited to him under regulation 16(2) of those regulations, or which would have been credited to him had he been a person to whom regulation 17 or 18 of those regulations applied.",
  "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/schedule/paragraph/1",
    "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."
}