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(1) These Regulations may be cited as the National Health Service Pension Schemes (Member Contributions etc.) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2022.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 30th September 2022.
(3) Regulation 3 has effect retrospectively from 1st April 2022.
(4) These Regulations extend to England and Wales.
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(1) The National Health Service Pension Schemes (Member Contributions etc.) (Amendment) Regulations 2022 are amended as follows.
(2) In regulation 3 (amendment of regulation 30 of the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015 - members’ contributions: employees)—
(a) in paragraph (2)(b), for the table substitute—“

Table Scheme Year 2022/23
Column 1 Column 2
Pensionable earnings band Contribution percentage rate
Up to £13,246 5.1%
£13,247 to £16,831 5.7%
£16,832 to £22,878 6.1%
£22,879 to £23,948 6.8%
£23,949 to £28,223 7.7%
£28,224 to £29,179 8.8%
£29,180 to £43,805 9.8%
£43,806 to £49,245 10.0%
£49,246 to £56,163 11.6%
£56,164 to £72,030 12.5%
£72,031 and above 13.5%”;
(b) in paragraph (3), for the table substitute—“

Table Scheme Year 2022/23
Column 1 Column 2
Pensionable earnings band Contribution percentage rate
Up to £13,246 5.1%
£13,247 to £16,831 5.7%
£16,832 to £22,878 6.1%
£22,879 to £23,948 6.8%
£23,949 to £28,223 7.7%
£28,224 to £29,179 8.8%
£29,180 to £43,805 9.8%
£43,806 to £49,245 10.0%
£49,246 to £56,163 11.6%
£56,164 to £72,030 12.5%
£72,031 and above 13.5%”.
(3) In regulation 4 (amendment of regulation 31 of the National Health Service Pension Scheme Regulations 2015 - members’ contributions: practitioners and non-GP providers), in paragraph (4), for Table 2 substitute—“

Table 2 Scheme Year 2022/23
Column 1 Column 2
Pensionable earnings band Contribution percentage rate
Up to £13,246 5.1%
£13,247 to £16,831 5.7%
£16,832 to £22,878 6.1%
£22,879 to £23,948 6.8%
£23,949 to £28,223 7.7%
£28,224 to £29,179 8.8%
£29,180 to £43,805 9.8%
£43,806 to £49,245 10.0%
£49,246 to £56,163 11.6%
£56,164 to £72,030 12.5%
£72,031 and above 13.5%”.
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(1) The National Health Service Pension Scheme (Transitional and Consequential Provisions) Regulations 2015 are amended as follows.
(2) In Schedule 1 (eligibility of pensioners), in paragraph 2 (eligibility of 2008 Section pensioners to join new scheme), at the end of the table insert—“
7 a tier 2 ill-health pensioner—(a) who returns to NHS employment and the first anniversary of that return is on or after 1st April 2022;(b) to whom regulation 2.G.4(5)(b) or 3.G.4(5)(b) of the 2008 Regulations applies; and(c) on the first anniversary of the return to NHS employment that person is not eligible to re-join the 2008 Section pursuant to regulation 2.B.2(A1) or 3.B.2(A1) of the 2008 Regulations. eligible to be an active member of the new scheme on the first day on or after the first anniversary of return to NHS employment on which the member is in an employment that would, apart from the operation of regulation 19(1)(d) of the 2015 Regulations, otherwise be eligible for membership under those Regulations.”.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care
Robert Jenrick
Minister of State,
Department of Health and Social Care
22nd September 2022We consent
Craig Whittaker
Gareth Johnson
Two of the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty’s Treasury
22nd September 2022