The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015

Entitlement day

78.—(1) The entitlement day for the purposes of an age retirement pension is—

(a) if the member (M) is in NHS employment on the day on which M reaches normal pension age—

(i) the day after M ceases to be in NHS employment; or

(ii) the day on which M reaches the age of 75;

(b) if M is not in NHS employment on the day on which M reaches normal pension age, that day.

(2) If regulation 98 applies to M, for the purposes of M’s entitlement to a pension in respect of old employment (within the meaning of regulation 101(3)) a reference in this regulation to M ceasing to be in NHS employment must be treated as a reference to M ceasing to be in the old employment.