# Local Government Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002, Regulation 30: Amounts of ill-health pension and grant

Extent: N.I.

(1) Where the member’s total membership is at least 5 years, the multiplier for an ill-health pension or grant is by reference to the member’s enhanced membership period instead of his total membership.
(2) A member’s enhanced membership period is –
(a) if his total membership is less than 10 years, twice his total membership;
(b) if his total membership is at least 10 years, but not more than 13 122/365 years, 20 years; and
(c) otherwise, his total membership plus 6 243/365 years.
(3) But the enhanced membership period must not exceed ... the total membership the member would have had if he had continued as an active member until he was 65, ....
(4) Subject to paragraph (5), where a member becomes entitled to a further ill-health pension and grant (because of having been a member in two employments) the multiplier for the further ill-health pension and grant will be the total membership without enhancement.
(5) Paragraph (4) does not apply to a member who becomes entitled to a further ill-health pension and grant as a result of being in concurrent employments which cease simultaneously.
(6) Where membership includes membership in part-time employment, the enhanced membership period allowed under paragraph (2) must be calculated by first working out what it would be if the employment were all whole-time, and then reducing the resulting period by multiplying it by the appropriate fraction (but see paragraphs (7) and (10)).
(7) The member’s enhanced membership period must not be reduced below that which is calculated by reference to his membership in whole-time employment, disregarding his membership in part-time employment.
(8) The appropriate fraction is the fraction of which the numerator is the member’s total membership and the denominator is the period which would be his total membership if his employment had all been whole-time.
(9) In the case of a member in part-time employment with non-cyclical fluctuating contractual hours, that fraction must be determined by making separate calculations for each period over which averaging of the member’s hours occurs in calculating his contractual hours.
(10) If the member’s total membership includes a period of at least 13 122/365 years in whole-time employment, paragraph (6) does not apply.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2002/352/regulation/30 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2002/regulation-30
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