{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-E4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-northern-ireland-1992/regulation-E4.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1992/547",
  "legislation_title": "Local Government (Superannuation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/local-government-superannuation-regulations-northern-ireland-1992",
  "path": "regulation/E4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "E4",
  "heading": "Ill-health retirement grant",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies to a person—\n(a) who has at any time since 8th December 1980 ceased to hold a local government employment;\n(b) who when he ceased to hold that employment—\n(i) was entitled to reckon an aggregate of at least one but less than 2 years' reckonable service and qualifying service; and\n(ii) was incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of that employment by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body;\n(c) who did not cease to hold that employment in consequence of any such offence or misconduct as are mentioned in regulation C15(7);\n(d) who is not apart from this regulation entitled to any payment out of the fund, other than an injury allowance under regulation 21 of the 1981 regulations or the corresponding provisions of the former regulations or a return of contributions, and has not—\n(i) received any return of contributions other than one in respect of which a payment was made under regulation 28A(3) of the 1981regulations; or\n(ii) received a grant under regulation 28A of the 1981 regulations; and\n(e) who, if a return of contributions (increased under regulation J10 where that regulation applies) were made to him, would receive a net amount smaller than that of a grant calculated in accordance with paragraph (2).\n(2) A person to whom paragraph (1) applies is entitled to be paid a grant (“an ill-health retirement grant”) of an amount equal to—\n(a) 1/12th of his pensionable remuneration multiplied by the length in years of his reckonable service; or\n(b) 3/80ths of his pensionable remuneration multiplied by the length in years of the total period he would have been entitled to reckon as reckonable service if—\n(i) he had continued in local government employment until he had attained the age of 65 years; and\n(ii) any added period payments had been completed,\nwhichever is the lesser amount.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "nisr/1998/337",
      "affecting_title": "Local Government (Superannuation) (Interchange) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1992/547/regulation/E4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:53:47.631381+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."
}