The Health and Social Care Pension Schemes (Remediable Service) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2023

Ill-health pension: acceptance of retrospective applications

75.—(1) This regulation applies where—

(a) a remedy member (“M”) submits an application for an ill-health pension on or after 1st October 2023; and

(b) the scheme manager is satisfied that it is more likely than not that, but for a relevant breach of a non-discrimination rule(1), M would, during the period of M’s remediable service, have made the decision to apply for an ill-health pension.

(2) The scheme manager may treat the application—

(a) in accordance with regulation 27 of the 2015 Transitional Regulations(2) (ill-health benefits: continuity of existing applications); and

(b) as if the application had been submitted before 1st April 2022.

(3) In this regulation—

“ill-health pension” means a pension under—

(a)

regulation 13A of the 1995 Regulations (Ill health pension on early retirement);

(b)

regulation 52 or regulation 182 of the 2008 Regulations (early retirement on ill-health: active members and non-contributing members); or

(c)

regulation 89 of the 2015 Regulations (entitlement to ill-health pension).

(1)

See section 25(8) of PSPJOA 2022 for the meaning of “non-discrimination rule” and section 25(9) for the circumstances in which breach of a non-discrimination rule is “relevant”.

(2)

Regulation 27 was amended by S.R. 2022 No.156.