{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-36.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/141",
  "legislation_title": "The Local Government Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/36",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: deferred members",
  "text": "(1) A deferred member who, because of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body—\n(a) becomes permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment that member was engaged in at the date the member became a deferred member; and\n(b) is unlikely to be capable of undertaking gainful employment before normal pension age,\nmay ask to receive payment of a retirement pension whatever the member's age.\n(2) A request under paragraph (1) must be made in writing to the deferred member's appropriate administering authority.\n(3) Before determining whether or not to agree to a request under paragraph (1), the deferred member's appropriate administering authority must obtain a certificate from an IRMP as to—\n(a) whether the member is suffering from a condition that renders the member permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment the member was engaged in because of ill-health or infirmity of mind or body; and, if so\n(b) whether as a result of that condition the member is unlikely to be capable of undertaking gainful employment before reaching normal pension age.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/141/regulation/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:12:56.289150+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."
}