{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2009/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2009/1920",
  "legislation_title": "The Parliamentary Pensions (Amendment) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/parliamentary-pensions-amendment-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Ill-health pensions based on service as an office holder",
  "text": "(1) Regulation J2 of the Principal Regulations is amended as follows.\n(2) For sub-paragraph (1)(a) substitute—\n“(a) ceases to be a participating Member and a participating office holder before attaining the age of sixty-five years; or”.\n(3) For paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) If on an application under this regulation—\n(a) the applicant (“A”) has certified to the Trustees in such form as the Trustees require that A does not intend—\n(i) to seek election or re-election to the House of Commons; or\n(ii) to accept any future offer of a qualifying office; and\n(b) the Trustees are satisfied that—\n(i) A’s ceasing to be a participating Member as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) or ceasing to be a participating office holder as mentioned in paragraph (1)(b) is a direct consequence of A’s ill-health; and\n(ii) A’s ill-health is such as would permanently prevent A from performing adequately the duties of a Member of the House of Commons,\nA shall, subject to regulation J6, be entitled to receive a lower tier ill-health pension as from the material time, payable under regulation F3 and calculated in accordance with paragraph (4).”.\n(4) For paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) Where a participant (“P”) would become entitled to make an application under paragraph (1) if, because of ill-health, P were to cease as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) at a particular time in the future, P may make an application under paragraph (1) before so ceasing, specifying in the application the time when P proposes so to cease.\n(3A) Where—\n(a) a participant (“P”) makes an application in accordance with paragraph (3); and\n(b) the Trustees are satisfied that if, because of ill-health, P ceases as mentioned in sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1) at the time specified in the application, P will be entitled under paragraph (2) to receive a pension under regulation F3 as from that time,\nthe Trustees must give P notice in writing to that effect.”.\n(5) For paragraph (4) substitute—\n“(4) The annual amount of a lower tier ill-health pension payable under regulation F3 by virtue of this regulation shall (subject to Part G (Commutation)) be calculated in accordance with regulation F4.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2009/1920/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:08:26.934755+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."
}