Regulation 3

For the purposes of section 1(1) of the Act (which provides that a pension authority may increase the basic rate of an official pension of a class prescribed by a percentage of the said basic rate ascertained in accordance with the provisions of the Act and beginning after a specified date) a National Health Service pension, being an official pension which is payable by the Secretary of State, is hereby prescribed as an official pension of a class of which the basic rate may be increased.