{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-36",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014/schedule-2/paragraph-36.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2014/1964",
  "legislation_title": "The Public Service (Civil Servants and Others) Pensions Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/public-service-civil-servants-and-others-pensions-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/36",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "36",
  "heading": "Ill-health retirement certificate not given",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies if a member of the PCSPS (or the member’s employer on behalf of the member)—\n(a) claimed payment of an ill-health pension under that scheme before the member’s transition date; and\n(b) the pension does not become payable before the member’s transition date.\n(2) If the member is not entitled to immediate payment of an ill-health pension under the PCSPS, the member joins this scheme on whichever is the later of—\n(a) the member’s transition date; and\n(b) the day after all relevant appeal rights in relation to the scheme medical adviser’s decision not to give an ill-health retirement certificate are exhausted.\n(3) In this paragraph—\n“all relevant appeal rights” includes the member’s appeal rights under section 11.10 of the Civil Service Management Code issued under Part 1 of the Constitutional Reform and Governance Act 2010; and\n“ill-health retirement certificate” means a certificate given by the scheme medical adviser under the PCSPS stating that, in the opinion of the scheme medical adviser, the member has suffered a permanent breakdown in health involving incapacity for employment or total incapacity for employment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 36 in force at 15.8.2014, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c. 25."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/1964/schedule/2/paragraph/36",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:08:32.082597+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."
}