{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014/regulation-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014/regulation-51.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/2336",
  "legislation_title": "The Armed Forces Pension Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/armed-forces-pension-regulations-2014",
  "path": "regulation/51",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Entitlement to ill-health pension: active member with permanent serious ill-heath",
  "text": "(1) An active member who has not reached normal pension age is entitled to immediate payment of an ill-health pension if—\n(a) in the opinion of the scheme manager, the member has suffered a permanent breakdown in health involving incapacity for any gainful full time employment;\n(b) the scheme manager has received evidence from a registered medical practitioner that the member is, and will continue to be, incapable of carrying on their occupation because of physical or mental impairment;\n(c) the member has at least 2 years’ qualifying service or a transfer value payment otherwise than from another occupational pension scheme has been accepted in relation to the member under Part 8 (Transfers);\n(d) the member is not entitled to an ill-health pension under regulation 52(1) (entitlement to ill-health pension: active member with significant impairment of capacity for gainful employment); and\n(e) the scheme manager has agreed to the member becoming so entitled.\n(2) For the purpose of these Regulations, a member’s breakdown in health is “permanent” if the scheme manager is of the opinion that the breakdown will continue until the member reaches normal pension age.\n(3) A member entitled to immediate payment of an ill-health pension is entitled to an added pension of any description if the pensioner member’s account specifies an accrued added pension of that description.\n(4) The annual rate of an ill-health pension and any added pension payable under this regulation is calculated in accordance with regulation 54 (annual rate of ill-health pension: active members with permanent serious ill-health).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 51(3) substituted (1.4.2015) by The Armed Forces Pension Scheme and Early Departure Payments Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. 2015/466), regs. 1(2), 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 51 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/2336/regulation/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:04:13.886265+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}