Words in reg. 110(3)(a) substituted (30.11.2017) by The Teachers Pensions Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1084), regs. 1, 15(a)
Reg. 110(3A) inserted (30.11.2017) by The Teachers Pensions Schemes (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2017 (S.I. 2017/1084), regs. 1, 15(b)
A member (P) is entitled to payment of an ill-health pension from the entitlement day if—
P is qualified or re-qualified for retirement benefits;
P has not reached normal pension age;
P has left all eligible employment;
P has applied under regulation 162 for payment of an ill-health pension;
P has not applied under that regulation for payment of any other retirement pension; and
the scheme manager is satisfied after consideration of a medical report—
if paragraph (2) applies, that P meets the incapacity condition and the total incapacity condition; or
if paragraph (3) applies, that P meets the incapacity condition.
This paragraph applies if—
P left all eligible employment for a reason other than because P was incapacitated; or
P made the ill-health application more than 2 years after the last day of pensionable service.
This paragraph applies if—
P left all
P made the ill-health application—
before leaving all eligible employment; or
within 2 years after the last day of pensionable service.
Where paragraph (3) applies, the illness or injury which P relies upon in P’s ill-health application to meet the incapacity condition must be—
the same illness or injury which was the reason, or as the case may be, one of the reasons for P leaving pensionable employment; or
connected to or consequent upon that injury or illness.
Except as provided in regulation 114, an ill-health pension is payable for life.