The Firefighters' Pension Scheme (Scotland) Order 2007

Award on ill-health retirement

2.—(1) This rule applies to a firefighter member who leaves that employment by reason of permanent disablement(1) (referred to in this Scheme as “ill-health retirement”).

(2) Every firefighter member to whom this rule applies and who satisfies an eligibility condition is entitled, on retiring, to a lower tier ill-health pension calculated in accordance with paragraph 1 of Annex 1 to this Scheme.

(3) A firefighter member–

(a) who is entitled to a lower tier ill-health pension;

(b) who has at least five years of qualifying service; and

(c) in respect of whom an independent qualified medical practitioner has expressed the opinion, obtained in accordance with rule 2(2) of Part 8, that the firefighter member is permanently disabled from undertaking regular employment,

is also entitled, on retiring, to a higher tier ill-health pension calculated in accordance with paragraph 2 or 3 of Annex 1, as the firefighter member’s circumstances require.

(1)

See rule 3 of Part 1.