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Regulation 68 Review of ill-health award or early payment of retirement pensionI1C1

Scotland

(1)

Where a member (P) has been in receipt of an ill-health award under regulation 65 (entitlement to lower tier ill-health pension and higher tier ill-health pension) for less than 10 years, and is under deferred pension age, the scheme manager must consider, at such intervals as it considers appropriate, whether P has become capable—

(a)

of performing any duty appropriate to the role from which P retired on grounds of ill-health; and

(b)

of undertaking regular employment.

(2)

The scheme manager must consider, at such intervals as it considers appropriate before the member reaches deferred pension age, in relation to a pensioner member who was a deferred member and whose pension is being paid early by virtue of regulation 67 (early payment of retirement pension to a deferred member), whether the member has become capable of undertaking regular employment.

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Modifications

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Reg. 68 applied (1.4.2015) by S.S.I. 2006/338, Sch. 1 Scheme Pt. 8 rule 2(4)(b)(ii) as substituted by The Firefighters’ Compensation Scheme and Pension Scheme (Amendment) (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/143), arts. 1(3), 9(c))

Commencement

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Reg. 68 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(2)