Regulation E2 Entitlement to retirement pension and retiring allowanceI1

he has attained the age of 60 years and the total of his reckonable service and any qualifying service is not less than 25 years, or

the total of his reckonable service and any qualifying service is not less than 5 years and—

neither sub-paragraph (a) nor sub-paragraph (b) applies and—

none of the preceding sub-paragraphs applies and he—

he is not so entitled under paragraph (1)(a) to (c), or he is entitled under paragraph (1)(c) but makes an election under regulation C12(5) and receives a return of contributions (in which case he shall be treated as having ceased to hold the employment on the day before the date of receipt), and

the whole or some part of his reckonable service was service in a non-participating employment or was reckonable service which relates to employment with a non-local government employer in a non-participating employment, and

a period of his service in a non-participating employment came to an end by reason of the repeal of section 56(1) of the Insurance Act or by reason of the provisions of regulation 2(2) of the National Insurance (Non-participation-Assurance of Equivalent Pension Benefits) Regulations 1960^f1 as modified by regulation 9(2)(a) or (b) of the Transitional Provisions Regulations, and

at some time during the settlement period (within the meaning of regulation 2 of the Transitional Provisions Regulations) he became, and has remained, assured of equivalent pension benefits.

that the employing authority certify that the person has ceased to hold the local government employment by reason of redundancy or in the interests of the efficient exercise of their functions, or

that the person was one of the holders of a joint appointment and his appointment has been terminated because the other ceased to hold his appointment.

from any date on which he becomes incapable by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment he ceased to hold, or

from any date after he has attained the age of 50 years from which the employing authority determine on compassionate grounds that the benefits are to become payable, or

in the case of a woman, from the first date on which she both—

in the case of a man who has so elected by notice in writing given to the employing authority not later than 3 months after ceasing to hold the employment, as from the date on which he ceased to hold it, or

in the case of a woman, from the first date (if earlier than the date mentioned in sub-paragraph (c)) on which she both—

in any other case, from the date on which the person attains the age of 65 years.

if the whole of the aggregate amount of his contributions to the appropriate superannuation fund, within the meaning of regulation C12, has been returned to him (whether with or without interest) under that regulation or under regulation C8 of the 1974 regulations and, after receiving the return of contributions, he has no further right to reckon any reckonable service to which a transfer value accepted under regulation J8 relates, or

if rights in respect of the reckonable service he was entitled to reckon in relation to the employment he ceased to hold have been transferred to a non-local government scheme by virtue of the payment of a transfer value, or

if he re-enters local government employment, unless he elects to remain entitled to the preserved benefits.

is a pension in relation to which he has a guaranteed minimum under section 35 of the Pensions Act, and

would, but for regulation E1(3)(a), be reduced under regulation E3(14) to less than his guaranteed minimum pension.

has attained state pensionable age, and

is no longer in any local government employment.