The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2003

4.  In regulation T6 (loss of rights to benefits)—

(a) after paragraph (1), there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“(1A) Subject to paragraph (2), the Secretary of State may also direct that all or part of any rights to benefits or other amounts payable in respect of a member be forfeited where such benefits or amounts are payable to a person who is—

(a) the member’s widow or widower;

(b) a dependant of the member;

(c) a person not coming within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) who is specified in a notice given under regulation F5(3A); or

(d) a person to whom such benefits or amounts are payable under the member’s will or on his intestacy,

and that person is convicted of the offence of murder or manslaughter of that member or of any other offence of which unlawful killing of that member is an element.”;

(b) in paragraph (2), for “paragraph (b) or (c)”, there shall be substituted “paragraph (1)(b) or (c)”.