The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Additional Voluntary Contributions) Regulations 2000
These Regulations make provision for the payment of additional voluntary contributions by persons who are members of the pension scheme constituted by the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995 (“the NHS Pension Scheme”), or by their employers, in order to secure additional benefits financed by investment of those contributions. Regulations 1 to 10, 11(1) to (5), (7) and (8), 12 to 18 and 21 take effect from 1st February 1991. Regulation 11(6) takes effect from 1st December 1999. Section 12(1) of the Superannuation Act 1972 confers power to make Regulations having effect from a date earlier than the date of their making.