Early retirement pension — ill healthS
16.—(1) In the case of members who are or have been practitioners, regulation E2 and E3 are modified so that, if the member satisfies the requirements for a pension based on pensionable service that is increased under any of paragraphs (5) to (7) of regulation E2 or regulation E3(4) to (6)—
(a)the member's total pensionable service will be increased as described in whichever of those paragraphs applies;
(b)the length of the member's officer service and practitioner service will each be increased by the proportion by which the member's total pensionable service is increased; and
(c)for the purpose of calculating the member's pension in respect of practitioner service, the member's uprated earnings will then be increased by the same proportion as the member's practitioner service is increased by under paragraph (b) above.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (1), “total pensionable service” includes both officer service and practitioner service but does not include any period of additional service that the member buys under regulation Q1 (right to buy additional service).
(3) Regulation E3 is modified so that the definition of “regular employment of like duration” in paragraph (18) of that regulation means such employment as the Scottish Ministers consider would involve a similar level of engagement in the member's current pensionable service as a practitioner.