Scottish Statutory Instrument SI 2011/117 United Kingdom

The National Health Service Superannuation Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2011

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s.reg.a3 Approved Out of Hours providers Regulated
  • Notify the appointed Health Board of insolvency events and give notice to stop participationAny Person
s.reg.c1 Meaning of “pensionable pay” Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • NHS employing authorities must notify members of overtime election rights by 1 Jan 2026Crown / Minister / Government department
178 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.reg.a1 Citation and commencement
s.reg.a2 Interpretation
s.reg.a4 Civil partnerships and marriage of same sex couples
s.reg.b1 Membership of this Section of the scheme
s.reg.b2 Age limits and restrictions on membership
s.reg.b3 Restrictions on further participation in this Section of the scheme
s.reg.b4 Opting out of this Section of the scheme
s.reg.b5 Joining or rejoining this Section of the scheme after opting out
s.reg.b6 Opting into this Section of the scheme: mis-sold pensions
s.reg.c2 Meaning of “pensionable service”
s.reg.c3 Meaning of “qualifying service”
s.reg.c4 Pensionable service in respect of part-time employment
s.reg.d1 Contributions by members
s.reg.d2 Contributions and other payments by employing authorities
s.reg.d3 Further contributions by employing authorities in respect of excessive pay increases
s.reg.e1 Normal retirement pension
s.reg.e10 Continuing entitlement to a pension under regulation E1 or E11
s.reg.e11 Early retirement pension (with actuarial reduction)
s.reg.e11a Partial retirement pension
s.reg.e11b Increase in pensionable pay following exercise of option under regulation E11A
s.reg.e11c Application of regulations E11A and E11B with modifications where concurrent part-time employments held
s.reg.e12 Preserved pension
s.reg.e13 Lump sum on retirement
s.reg.e14 Deductions from lump sum
s.reg.e15 Early leavers' entitlement to refund of contributions
s.reg.e16 Payment of interest with refund of contributions
s.reg.e17 General option to exchange part of pension for lump sum
s.reg.e2 Early retirement pension on ill health grounds (pre 1st April 2008)
s.reg.e3 Early retirement pension on ill health grounds (post 1st April 2008)
s.reg.e4 Re-assessment of ill health condition determined under regulation E3
s.reg.e5 Further employment after a benefit is paid under regulation E3
s.reg.e6 Early retirement pension (redundancy etc.)
s.reg.e7 Early retirement pension (redundancy etc. new starters and post-transition)
s.reg.e8 Early retirement pension (redundancy etc. notifications)
s.reg.e9 Early retirement pension (redundancy and special classes)
s.reg.f1 Lump sum when member dies in pensionable employment
s.reg.f2 Lump sum when member dies after pension becomes payable (other than a pension under regulation E11A)
s.reg.f2a Member dies after a pension under regulation E11A becomes payable
s.reg.f3 Lump sum where member dies with preserved pension
s.reg.f4 Lump sum when member dies within 12 months after leaving pensionable employment without immediate or preserved pension
s.reg.f5 Payment of lump sum
s.reg.g1 Widow's pension
s.reg.g10 Surviving civil partner's pension
s.reg.g11 Dependent surviving civil partner's pension
s.reg.g12 Purchase of surviving civil partner's pension in respect of service prior to 6th April 1988
s.reg.g13 Increased surviving civil partner's pension
s.reg.g14 Surviving scheme partner’s pension
s.reg.g15 Dependent surviving scheme partner’s pension
s.reg.g16 Purchase of surviving partner's pension in respect of service before 6th April 1988
s.reg.g17 Increased surviving partner's pension
s.reg.g2 Widow's pension when member dies in pensionable employment
s.reg.g3 Widow's pension when member dies after pension becomes payable
s.reg.g4 Widow's pension when member dies with preserved pension
s.reg.g5 Widow's pension when member dies within 12 months after leaving pensionable employment without immediate or preserved pension
s.reg.g6 Widow's pension when member marries after leaving pensionable employment
s.reg.g7 Widower's pension
s.reg.g8 Dependent widower's pension
s.reg.g9 Increased widower's pension
s.reg.h1 Dependent child
s.reg.h2 Payment of dependent child's allowance
s.reg.h3 Child allowance when member dies in pensionable employment
s.reg.h4 Child allowance when member dies after pension becomes payable
s.reg.h5 Child allowance when member dies with preserved pension
s.reg.h6 Child allowance when member dies within 12 months after leaving pensionable employment without immediate or preserved pension
s.reg.h7 Increase of child allowance when child not dependent on surviving parent or spouse, civil partner or scheme partner of a parent
s.reg.j1 Allocation of pension by member for benefit of dependant
s.reg.j2 Limits on allocation
s.reg.j3 Date on which allocation has effect
s.reg.j4 Death of member after allocation
s.reg.k1 Contracting-out conditions to be overriding
s.reg.k2 Guaranteed minimum pensions
s.reg.k3 Late retirement
s.reg.k4 Early leavers
s.reg.k5 Guaranteed minimum pensions transferred to this Section of the scheme
s.reg.k6 Protected rights transferred to this Section of the scheme
s.reg.k7 State scheme premiums
s.reg.l1 Treatment of pensionable service of early leavers returning to pensionable employment
s.reg.l2 Calculation of benefits
s.reg.l3 Preserved pension to count as qualifying service
s.reg.l4 Continuation of additional contributions
s.reg.m1 Member's right to a transfer or a buy-out
s.reg.m2 Exercising a right to a transfer or a buy-out
s.reg.m3 Amount of member's cash equivalent
s.reg.m4 Applications for transfer value payments - general
s.reg.m5 Applications for transfer value payments: time limits
s.reg.m6 Special terms for transfer out (bulk transfers etc.)
s.reg.m7 Member's right to transfer a preserved pension to the 2008 Section
s.reg.m7a Member’s right to transfer a preserved pension to the 2015 Scheme
s.reg.m8 Waiver of transfer payments
s.reg.n1 Member's right to transfer accrued rights to benefits to this Section of the scheme
s.reg.n2 Transfers in from health service schemes
s.reg.n3 Transfers made under the Public Sector Transfer Arrangements
s.reg.n4 Transfers that are not made under the Public Sector Transfer Arrangements
s.reg.n5 Transfers in respect of members to whom regulation B6 applies who elect to join or rejoin this Section of the scheme after opting out
s.reg.n6 Special terms for transfers in (bulk transfers etc.)
s.reg.p1 Maternity, paternity and adoption absence
s.reg.p2 Absence because of illness or injury
s.reg.p3 Absence for reasons other than illness or injury
s.reg.q1 Right to buy additional service
s.reg.q10 Member's option to pay lump sum contributions to purchase additional pension
s.reg.q11 Payment of additional lump sum contributions by employing authority
s.reg.q12 Exercise of options under regulations Q8, Q10 and Q11
s.reg.q13 Cancellation and cessation of options under regulation Q8
s.reg.q14 Effect of payment of additional contributions under this Part
s.reg.q15 Effect of death or early payment of pension after option exercised under regulation Q8, Q10 or Q11
s.reg.q16 Effect of part payment of periodical contributions
s.reg.q17 Revaluation of increases bought under options: members' pensions
s.reg.q2 Right to buy an unreduced retirement lump sum
s.reg.q3 Paying for additional service by single payment
s.reg.q4 Paying for unreduced retirement lump sum by single payment
s.reg.q5 Paying by regular additional contributions
s.reg.q6 Electing to buy additional service or unreduced retirement lump sum
s.reg.q7 Part payment for additional service or unreduced retirement lump sum
s.reg.q8 Option to pay additional periodical contributions to purchase additional pension
s.reg.q9 Effect of member being absent or leaving and rejoining this Section of the scheme during the contribution option period
s.reg.r1 Medical and dental practitioners and trainee practitioners
s.reg.r10 Members who work temporary additional sessions
s.reg.r11 Officers on the staff of special hospitals
s.reg.r12 Part-time specialists with service before 15th December 1966
s.reg.r13 Participators in pilot schemes
s.reg.r14 Pension sharing on divorce or nullity of marriage or dissolution or nullity of a civil partnership
s.reg.r2 Nurses, physiotherapists, midwives and health visitors
s.reg.r3 Mental health officers
s.reg.r4 Members doing more than one job
s.reg.r5 Transferred officers (supplementary payments)
s.reg.r6 Members entitled to fees for domiciliary consultations
s.reg.r7 Former members of health service schemes
s.reg.r8 Members whose earnings are reduced
s.reg.r9 Polygamous marriages
s.reg.s1 Suspension of pension on return to NHS employment
s.reg.s2 Reduction of pension on return to NHS employment
s.reg.s3 Benefits in respect of pensionable employment after pension becomes payable under regulation E2
s.reg.s4 Benefits in respect of pensionable employment after pension becomes payable under regulation E3
s.reg.s5 Benefits on death in pensionable employment after pension under regulation E2 becomes payable
s.reg.s6 Benefits on death in pensionable employment after pension under regulation E3 becomes payable
s.reg.t1 Claims for benefits
s.reg.t10 Interest on late payment of benefits
s.reg.t11 Interest and administration charges: late paid contributions
s.reg.t1a Provision of information: continuing entitlement to benefit
s.reg.t2 Deduction of tax
s.reg.t3 Deduction of tax: further provisions
s.reg.t4 Benefits not assignable
s.reg.t5 Beneficiary who is incapable
s.reg.t6 Offset for crime, fraud or negligence
s.reg.t7 Loss of rights to benefits
s.reg.t8 Commutation of trivial pensions
s.reg.t9 Reduction in benefits to take account of benefits under the National Insurance Acts
s.reg.u1 Extension of time limits
s.reg.u2 Determination of questions
s.reg.u3 Accounts and actuarial reports
s.reg.u4 Cost Sharing
s.reg.u5 Benefit information statements
s.reg.v1 Interpretation
s.reg.v10 Failure to discharge liability in respect of pension credit within the implementation period – Death of ex-spouse or ex-civil partner within period
s.reg.v11 “Appropriate rights”/ “Pension credit benefits” under the Scheme
s.reg.v12 Pension credit benefit before attaining normal benefit age (with actuarial reduction)
s.reg.v13 Pension credit member dies after pension credit benefit becomes payable
s.reg.v14 Pension credit member dies before pension credit benefit becomes payable
s.reg.v15 Additional contributions and additional periods
s.reg.v16 Commutation: small pensions
s.reg.v17 Commutation: exceptional ill-health
s.reg.v18 Pension Transfers
s.reg.v19 Charges in respect of pension sharing costs
s.reg.v2 Pension sharing mechanism in the Scheme
s.reg.v20 Excluded membership
s.reg.v21 General rules about benefits
s.reg.v22 Interest on late payment of benefits
s.reg.v23 Assignment
s.reg.v24 Administrative matters
s.reg.v3 Pension sharing order activates pension sharing creating pension debits and credits
s.reg.v4 Calculation of “appropriate amount”
s.reg.v5 Pension debits and reduction of benefit
s.reg.v6 Effect of pension sharing on protected rights and guaranteed minimum pension
s.reg.v7 Discharge of pension credit liability
s.reg.v8 Adjustment to the amount of the pension credit payments made without the knowledge of the pension debit
s.reg.v9 “Implementation period” for discharge of pension credit
s.reg.w1 Options to persons detrimentally affected by these Regulations
s.reg.w2 Revocations, savings and transitional provisions
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch001 Accounts and actuarial reports Regulated
  • Provide certificates of pensionable earnings to the Contracting Health Board or employerDirector or Officer
41 other schedules
s.sch001 Additional definitions used in this Schedule
s.sch001 Limit on pensionable earnings — dental practitioners
s.sch001 Officer service treated as practitioner service
s.sch001 Locum practitioners: breaks between contracts
s.sch001 Practitioners with benefits from both practitioner and officer service
s.sch001 Contributions to this Section of the scheme
s.sch001 Pensions for members — normal retirement pension
s.sch001 Early retirement pension — ill health
s.sch001 Partial retirement pension
s.sch001 Lump sum on member's death in pensionable employment or after pension becomes payable
s.sch001 Widow's, widower's, surviving civil partner's or surviving nominated partner's pension on member's death in pensionable employment
s.sch001 Increased widower's pension
s.sch001 Application of Regulations with modifications
s.sch001 Increased surviving civil partner's pension
s.sch001 Increased dependent surviving scheme partner’s pension
s.sch001 Increased surviving partner pension
s.sch001 Child allowance - member dies in pensionable employment
s.sch001 Preserved pension
s.sch001 Members away from work and maternity absence
s.sch001 Right to buy additional benefits
s.sch001 Transfer from other pension arrangements
s.sch001 Members doing more than one job
s.sch001 Reduction of pension
s.sch001 Membership: locum practitioners
s.sch001 Benefits on death in pensionable employment after pension becomes payable
s.sch001 Modifications of provisions having effect from 1st April 2001 (locum practitioners) (retrospective effect when admitted to supplementary lists)
s.sch001 Meaning of “pensionable earnings”
s.sch001 Calculating “pensionable earnings” of practitioners in partnership
s.sch001 Election relating to calculation of “pensionable earnings” in partnerships
s.sch001 Meaning of “pensionable earnings” in relation to other practitioners
s.sch001 Exclusions and deductions from pensionable earnings — all practitioners
s.sch002 Retirement pension and retirement lump sum
s.sch002 Regulation T7 (loss of rights to benefits) applies to a pension...
s.sch002 Lump sum on death
s.sch002 Widows, widowers and surviving civil partners
s.sch002 Dependent child allowance
s.sch002 Contracting out and guaranteed minimum pension
s.sch002 Transfer-out arrangements and buy-outs
s.sch002 Right to buy additional service and unreduced lump sum
s.sch002 Members who return to pensionable employment after pension becomes payable
s.sch002 Offset for crime, fraud or negligence

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