The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

Entitlement to payment of ill-health pension

100.—(1) An active member of this scheme who has not reached normal pension age under this scheme is entitled to the payment for life of an ill-health pension under this Chapter if the conditions in paragraph (2) are met.

(2) The conditions are—

(a) the police pension authority acting in exercise of its functions as employer requires the member to retire on a date determined by the police pension authority (or the Chief Constable as the case may be) under Part 6 (compulsory ill-health retirement);

(b) the member has at least 2 years’ qualifying service or is permanently medically unfit as the result of an injury received without the member’s default in the execution of duty; and

(c) the member is eligible under this scheme for payment of ill-health benefits.

(3) An ill-health pension under this Chapter is payable as follows—

(a) if the member meets the lower tier threshold, a lower tier ill-health pension is payable;

(b) if the member meets the upper tier threshold—

(i) a lower tier ill-health pension is payable; and

(ii) an enhanced upper tier ill-health pension is payable.

(4) A retirement added pension of any description is payable with a lower tier ill-health pension if the retirement account specifies an amount of retirement added pension of that description.

(5) For a transition member with continuity of service, a transition member’s ill-health pension is payable under paragraph 23 of Schedule 4.

(6) For a pensioner member who becomes entitled to an enhanced upper tier ill-health pension under regulation 110 or 111, an ill-health pension is payable in accordance with that regulation.