{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-D7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995/regulation-D7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/1019",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/D7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "D7",
  "heading": "Early entitlement to retirement benefits: ill-health",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Part, where a member who ceases to hold a local government employment—\n(a) has a statutory pension entitlement, and\n(b) is incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of that employment by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body,\nhe is entitled—\n(i) to a standard retirement pension, and\n(ii) to a standard retirement grant,\nwhich are payable immediately on his ceasing to hold that employment.\n(2) Where the member’s total period of membership is at least 5 years, he is to be treated for the purposes of this regulation as being entitled to count as a period of membership an additional period calculated in accordance with Schedule D3.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1997/578",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 1997"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1998/530",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/1019/regulation/D7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:11:15.645770+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."
}