{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-103",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-103.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2015/142",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pension Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/103",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "103",
  "heading": "Entitlement to enhanced upper tier ill-health pension following periodic review",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if—\n(a) the employer carries out a periodic review under regulation 100(2) (review of lower tier ill-health pension); and\n(b) the selected medical practitioner gives a report on the questions referred under regulation 107(2) containing the decision that P is permanently medically unfit for engaging in any regular employment.\n(2) P is entitled to payment of an enhanced upper tier ill-health pension from the claim date, calculated in accordance with regulation 94 (annual rate of ill-health pension under this scheme) and payable in accordance with this regulation in addition to the lower tier ill-health pension.\n(3) P is not entitled to payment of an enhanced upper tier ill-health pension under this regulation if the claim date is more than 5 years after the date on which P became entitled to payment for life of the lower tier ill-health pension.\n(4) The time limit in paragraph (3) does not apply if P’s medical unfitness is attributable to a progressive medical condition which, of its nature, could have been expected, as at the time of P’s retirement, to affect P with increasing severity.\n(5) The enhanced upper tier ill-health pension is payable in respect of each month as from the claim date.\n(6) In this regulation, “claim date” means the date on which the employer refers the questions in regulation 107(2) (referral of medical questions for purpose of a review: lower tier ill-health pension) to a selected medical practitioner for decision.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 103 in force at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/142/regulation/103",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:30:03.361596+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."
}