{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-79",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010/regulation-79.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2010/990",
  "legislation_title": "The Teachers' Pensions Regulations 2010",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/teachers-pensions-regulations-2010",
  "path": "regulation/79",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "79",
  "heading": "Short-service serious ill -health grant",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to a person (P) if—\n(a) P was in pensionable employment for at least 12 months,\n(b) P is not qualified for retirement benefits or qualified for retirement benefits following further employment,\n(c) P ceases to be in pensionable employment because P satisfies the incapacity condition,\n(d) P's application under regulation 107 (payment of benefits on application to Secretary of State) is made within 6 months after the date on which P's pensionable employment ceases, and\n(e) P has a life expectancy of less than a year.\n(2) A short-service serious ill-health grant is payable to a person to whom this regulation applies.\n(3) But no grant may be paid to a person who is 75 or over.\n(4) The amount of the grant is P's average salary/12 x P's reckonable service (in years and fractions of a year).\n(5) For the purpose of this regulation, a person satisfies the incapacity condition if the person is incapacitated and is likely to be incapacitated permanently.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/990/regulation/79",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:45:27.973590+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."
}