{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-71",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pension-scheme-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-71.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/71",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "71",
  "heading": "Referral of medical questions for purpose of regulation 72",
  "text": "(1) Before considering whether a person in service as a member of the police force (“the member”) should be compulsorily retired under regulation 72, the employer must refer the following questions to a selected medical practitioner for decision—\n(a) whether the member is medically unfit for performing the ordinary duties of a member of the police force;\n(b) whether that medical unfitness is likely to be permanent;\n(c) whether the member is medically unfit for engaging in any regular employment; and\n(d) whether that medical unfitness is likely to be permanent.\n(2) The selected medical practitioner must—\n(a) examine or interview the member as the selected medical practitioner thinks appropriate;\n(b) decide the questions referred to the selected medical practitioner under paragraph (1); and\n(c) give the employer and the member a report containing a decision on those questions.\n(3) That report is final, subject to—\n(a) an appeal under Schedule 1 against the decision of the selected medical practitioner; or\n(b) the referral under Schedule 1 of the decision of the selected medical practitioner for reconsideration.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Reg. 71(3) applied (1.10.2023) by The Police Pensions (Remediable Service) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/239), regs. 1(2), 51(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 71 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/71",
    "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."
}