{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-110",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015/regulation-110.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2015/113",
  "legislation_title": "The Police Pensions Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/police-pensions-regulations-northern-ireland-2015",
  "path": "regulation/110",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "110",
  "heading": "Entitlement to enhanced upper tier ill-health pension following claim for payment",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies if—\n(a) the scheme manager carries out a review under regulation 108(4) (review of lower tier ill-health pension); and\n(b) the selected medical practitioner gives a report on the questions referred under regulation 115(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 102(annual rate of ill-health pension) and payable in accordance with this regulation in addition to the lower tier ill-health pension.\n(3) The enhanced upper tier ill-health pension is payable in respect of each month as from the claim date.\n(4) P is not taken to claim payment of an enhanced upper tier ill-health pension if the claim date is more than 5 years after the date on which P became entitled to receive payment for life of the lower tier ill-health pension.\n(5) The time limit in paragraph (4) 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(6) In this regulation—\n“claim date” means the date on which the scheme manager is notified that P's medical unfitness has worsened; and\n“progressive medical condition” means—\n(a)a medical condition specified in Schedule 2 (progressive medical conditions); or\n(b)a medical condition specified on a list published by the Department for the purpose of this regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2015/113/regulation/110",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:04.118896+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."
}