{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1612",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Ill-health",
  "text": "(1) Where a member leaves a local government employment by reason of being permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of that employment because of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body, he is entitled to an ill-health pension and grant.\n(2) The pension and grant are payable immediately.\n(3) A member—\n(a) whose total membership is at least one year, but less than two years, and\n(b) to whom no transfer value is credited,\nis entitled to an ill-health grant (but not a pension), unless paragraph (4) applies to him.\n(4) This paragraph applies to a member if—\n(a) he is entitled to any payment out of the appropriate fund (other than an injury allowance under regulation 7 of the Benefit Regulations or a return of contributions),\n(b) he has received any payment under Part VI of the Local Government (Discretionary Payments) Regulations 1996, or\n(c) he would receive at least as much as the grant if his contributions were returned to him.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1680."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1212",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1212",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/573",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2004/573",
      "affecting_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2004"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1612/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:06:30.691853+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."
}