PART 4Scheme membership

CHAPTER 4Eligibility for payment of ill-health benefits

Interpretation35.

(1)

For the purpose of this Chapter, β€œfinal medical report” has the meaning given inβ€”

(a)

regulation 39(1) (selected medical practitioner's report);

(b)

regulation 40(3) (selected medical practitioner's revised report); or

(c)

regulation 41(4) (revised report by third registered medical practitioner).

(2)

For the purpose of this Chapter, the likely cost of providing a person with benefits under this scheme is disproportionately high if it is more than 50% greater than the likely cost of providing benefits under this scheme to a person who has not been identified as presenting a risk of retiring on grounds of permanent medical unfitness.