{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/schedule/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-increase-approved-schemes-national-health-service-regulations-1976/schedule/paragraph-3.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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "For the purposes of paragraph 1(b)(ii) of this schedule a period of employment shall be deemed to have become reckonable under a superannuation scheme if—\n(a) during such period the person was subject to a superannuation scheme in respect of which the contributions authorised or required to be paid by the employer were duly paid; or\n(b) such period was taken into account in calculating a sum in the nature of a transfer value paid to that scheme under the Regulations or any corresponding provision in force in Scotland, Northern Ireland or the Isle of Man or under rules made under section 2 of the Superannuation (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1948:\nProvided that—\n(i) so much of any period referred to in sub-paragraph (b) as consisted of non-contributing service shall be reckonable under this paragraph at half its actual length, and\n(ii) so much of any such period as consisted of part-time service shall be reckonable under this paragraph as though it were whole-time service for a proportionately reduced period.",
  "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/3",
    "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."
}