The Parliamentary Pensions (Consolidation and Amendment) Regulations 1993

Ill-health pensions based on service as an office holder

J2.—(1) A participant who because of ill-health—

(a) ceases to be a participating Member before attaining the age of sixty-five years; or

(b) while not a Member of the House of Commons ceases to be a participating office holder before attaining that age,

may apply to the Trustees for an early pension under regulation F3 if at the time when he so ceased (“the material time”) he would have become entitled to receive a pension under that regulation but for his not having attained the age of sixty-five years.

(2) If on an application under paragraph (1) above the Trustees are satisfied as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) (so far as applicable) and sub-paragraphs (b) and (c) of regulation J1(2), the applicant shall be entitled to receive a pension under regulation F3 as from the material time.

(3) Regulation J1(3) shall apply in relation to paragraphs (1) and (2) above as it applies to paragraphs (1) and (2) of that regulation, the reference to a pension under regulation F1 being for this purpose read as a reference to a pension under regulation F3.

(4) The annual amount of a pension payable under regulation F3 by virtue of this regulation shall (subject to Part G (Commutation)) be calculated in accordance with regulation F4.

(5) Regulation J1(6) shall apply for the purposes of this regulation.