The National Health Service Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Additional Voluntary Contributions (Amendment) Regulations 2009

PART 5 Amendment of the National Health Service (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2000

Amendment of the National Health Service (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2000

105.—(1) The National Health Service (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2000(1) shall be amended as follows.

(2) In paragraph (b) of regulation 20 (loss of rights to benefits), for “of those Regulations” substitute “of the 1995 Regulations or regulation 2.J.7 or 3.J.7 of the 2008 Regulations”.

(3) In Schedule 2 (pension sharing on divorce or nullity of marriage or dissolution or nullity of civil partnership)—

(a) in paragraph (6)(1), for “described in regulation 3(2) of the Pension Sharing (Pension Credit Benefit) Regulations 2000 (commutation of pension benefit)” substitute “referred to in paragraphs (b), (e) and (f) of the lump sum rule in section 166(1) of the 2004 Act”;

(b) in paragraph (14)(1)(b) (loss of rights to benefits), for “of those Regulations” substitute “of the 1995 Regulations or regulation 2.J.7 or 3.J.7 of the 2008 Regulations”.

(1)

S.I. 2000/619. The relevant amending instrument is S.I. 2008/655.