Regulation E19 Commutation: exceptional circumstances of ill-health

Where, at the time when a person first becomes entitled to a retirement pension by virtue of regulation E4(3) or (4), there are exceptional circumstances of serious ill health affecting the person the Secretary of State may discharge the liability to pay that pension in respect of so much of it as exceeds the person’s guaranteed minimum by payment of a lump sum calculated in accordance with paragraph (2).

The lump sum is an amount equal to five times the amount by which the annual rate of the retirement pension which would otherwise be payable to the person exceeds the amount of his guaranteed minimum.