{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-118",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-118.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/19",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/118",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "118",
  "heading": "Employer additional contribution: ill-health award",
  "text": "(1) Where a member has retired with an entitlement to the immediate payment of a higher tier ill-health pension and a lower tier ill-health pension under regulation 65(2) (entitlement to lower tier ill-health pension and higher tier ill-health pension), the authority must pay a higher tier ill-health additional contribution.\n(2) The amount of the higher tier ill-health additional contribution is the amount determined and notified to the authority by the Scottish Ministers.\n(3) Where a member has retired with an entitlement to the immediate payment of a lower tier ill-health pension and without any entitlement to a higher tier ill-health pension, the authority must pay a lower tier ill-health additional contribution.\n(4) The amount of the lower tier ill-health additional contribution is the amount determined and notified to the authority by the Scottish Ministers.\n(5) The employer must pay the higher tier ill-health additional contribution or the lower tier ill-health additional contribution, as the case may be, in equal instalments due on—\n(a) the date on which the member retires;\n(b) 1st April of the financial year following the financial year in which the first instalment was paid;\n(c) 1st April of the financial year following the financial year in which the second instalment was paid.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 118 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/19/regulation/118",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:31:38.589226+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."
}