{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-99",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008/regulation-99.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2008/228",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-administration-scotland-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/99",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "99",
  "heading": "Commutation: exceptional ill-health",
  "text": "(1) The whole of the pension element payable in respect of a pension credit benefit may be commuted for a lump sum before normal benefit age in circumstances where the person entitled to the pension credit benefit is suffering from serious ill-health prior to the normal benefit age.\n(2) In this regulation, “serious ill-health” means ill-health which is such as to give rise to a life expectancy of less than one year from the date on which the commutation of the pension credit benefit is applied for.\n(3) The lump sum shall be equal to five times the annual rate of the pension to which the pension credit member would have been entitled if on the date of commutation he had already reached the normal benefit age.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 99 in force at 1.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2008/228",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Administration) (Scotland) Regulations 2008"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2008/228/regulation/99",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-10T03:32:50.357537+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."
}