{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009/schedule-1/paragraph-49",
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  "legislation": "asp/2009/1",
  "legislation_title": "Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/scottish-parliamentary-pensions-act-2009",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/49",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "49",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A deferred pensioner is entitled to a deferred pensioner's ill-health pension if the Fund trustees are satisfied that the following conditions are met—\nCondition 1\nThe deferred pensioner applies to the Fund trustees for a deferred pensioner's ill-health pension.\nCondition 2\nThe deferred pensioner is under 65.\nCondition 3\nThe deferred pensioner has stopped doing gainful work as a direct consequence of a health condition.\nCondition 4\nAt the time of stopping work the deferred pensioner would be entitled to a scheme pension but for the fact that the deferred pensioner is not yet 65 years old.\nCondition 5\nThe health condition prevents the deferred pensioner from doing gainful work.\nCondition 6\nThe health condition is expected to be permanent and to continue to prevent the deferred pensioner from doing gainful work.\nCondition 7\nThe application is accompanied by evidence that a doctor is satisfied that conditions 5 and 6 are met.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 1 rule 49 substituted (11.2.2011) by The Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Act 2009 (Modifications to the Scottish Parliamentary Pensions Scheme) Resolution 2011 (S.S.I. 2011/244), Annex para. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2009/1/schedule/1/paragraph/49",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:15:42.892423+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."
}