The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015

Casual staff and locums not working on eligibility date

9.  Paragraph (2) applies where, on the date a person becomes eligible to join the new scheme, that person—

(a) is—

(i) employed on a casual basis and has ceased to pay contributions under regulation C3(4A) of the 1995 Regulations(1) or 2.A.5(2) of the 2008 Regulations; or

(ii) a locum practitioner and has ceased to pay contributions under paragraph 9A of Schedule 2 to the 1995 Regulations(2) or regulation 3.A.5(2) of the 2008 Regulations; and

(b) has ceased to pay those contributions because of a break which, on the date they become eligible to join the new scheme, is a break not exceeding a period of three months (“a relevant break”),

(2) Regulation 22(5) and (6) of the 2015 Regulations applies as though the member’s relevant break had commenced whilst the member was an active member of the new scheme.

(1)

Paragraph (4A) was inserted by S.I. 2002/561 and amended by S.I. 2009/2446.

(2)

Paragraph 9A was inserted by S.I. 2002/561 and amended by S.I. 2009/2446.