The National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2011

Transferred officers (supplementary payments)

R5.—(1) This regulation applies to members who were transferred from local authority employment under the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1972(1).

(2) When the member leaves NHS employment, becomes entitled to receive a pension or dies (whichever occurs first), the following benefits will be added to the benefits otherwise payable to, or in respect of, the member under the scheme:—

(a) a yearly amount equal to any additional superannuation benefits that would have been granted by the local authority had the member stayed in its employment until the date the member left NHS employment, became entitled to receive a pension or died (as the case may be), and

(b) any payments other than superannuation benefits that the local authority would have made if the circumstances in which the member left NHS employment, became entitled to receive a pension or died (as the case may be) had occurred immediately before the date on which the member was transferred to NHS employment.

(3) Where a member dies after becoming entitled to receive a pension, the amount of any benefits paid to the member under paragraph (2)(b) will be ignored when calculating the amount of any lump sum payable on the member’s death under regulation F2 (member dies after becoming entitled to receive a pension.

(1)

1972 c.58.