The National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015

Regulation 18(2)

SCHEDULE 6 Persons to whom the scheme may be extended

1.—(1) The categories or descriptions of persons to whom the scheme may be extended by determination pursuant to section 25 of the 2013 Act are as follows.

(2) A person, or class of persons—

(a) who is—

(i) wholly or mainly engaged in health services, whether provided under the 2006 Act, the 2006 (Wales) Act or otherwise; or

(ii) an officer of a government department serving on the medical or nursing staff of that department or at or for the purposes of a hospital maintained by that department,

and who, if the person were in the employment of an NHS organisation, would be eligible to join the scheme;

(b) who is a member of a body constituted under the 2006 Act or the 2006 (Wales) Act, other than a National Health Service trust or an NHS foundation trust;

(c) whose employment by an employing authority has been transferred to another body pursuant to an enactment relating (in whole or in part) to health services.

(3) A person who, while continuing in, or within twelve months after leaving, employment in which the person was entitled to participate in pension benefits provided under these Regulations (any period spent by that person on an approved course of study or training being left out of account), enters such other employment as may be approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of these Regulations.

(4) An approval given for the purposes of sub-paragraph (3) may specify provisions of these regulations which—

(a) are not to apply to the person; or

(b) are to apply to the person subject to such modifications as are specified.