The National Health Service (Pension Scheme, Injury Benefits and Compensation for Premature Retirement) Amendment Regulations 2003
Regulation 2 of, and the Schedule to, these Regulations amend the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/300) (“the principal Regulations”) by—providing that employing authorities shall make contributions to the cost of increases to NHS pensions and that such authorities should maintain records of their contributions to the scheme and making a consequential amendment (paragraphs 1 and 5 of the Schedule);providing both that preserved benefits are paid and that a pension is not abated where a member returns to employment with an employing authority by virtue of a transfer of an undertaking to that authority (paragraphs 2 and 3);providing for the forfeiture of benefits under the NHS Pension Scheme (“the Scheme”) to persons other than the member where the beneficiary has been convicted of the unlawful killing of the member, and making a minor amendment (paragraph 4).