{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-121",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2014/regulation-121.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2014/310",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pension Scheme Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pension-scheme-regulations-northern-ireland-2014",
  "path": "regulation/121",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "121",
  "heading": "Entitlement to short-service serious ill-health grant",
  "text": "(1) A person (P) is entitled to payment of a short-service serious ill-health grant on the entitlement day if—\n(a) P was in pensionable service (other than post-benefit service) for at least 12 months;\n(b) P has left all eligible employment because P is incapacitated;\n(c) P is not qualified for retirement benefits;\n(d) P has not reached 75;\n(e) within 6 months of leaving pensionable service P has applied under regulation 162 for payment of the grant; and\n(f) the Department is satisfied after consideration of the medical report that—\n(i) P meets the incapacity condition; and\n(ii) P has a life expectancy of less than a year.\n(2) This regulation does not apply if P is in a period of post-benefit service immediately before the entitlement day.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2014/310/regulation/121",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:04:41.805929+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."
}