PART 6Retirement pensions payable on grounds of permanent medical unfitness
CHAPTER 2Compulsory ill-health retirement
Referral of medical questions for purpose of regulation 8281.
(1)
Before considering whether a person in service as a member of a police force (“the member”) should be compulsorily retired under regulation 82, the police pension authority must refer the following questions to a selected medical practitioner for decision—
(a)
whether the member is medically unfit for performing the ordinary duties of a member of the police force;
(b)
whether that medical unfitness is likely to be permanent;
(c)
whether the member is medically unfit for engaging in any regular employment; and
(d)
whether that medical unfitness is likely to be permanent.
(2)
The selected medical practitioner must—
(a)
examine or interview the member as the selected medical practitioner thinks appropriate;
(b)
decide the questions referred to the selected medical practitioner under paragraph (1); and
(c)
give the police pension authority and the member a report containing a decision on those questions.
(3)
That report is final, subject to—
(a)
an appeal under Schedule 1 against the decision of the selected medical practitioner; or
(b)
the referral under Schedule 1 of the decision of the selected medical practitioner for reconsideration.