Regulation E19 Commutation: exceptional circumstances of ill healthI1
Northern Ireland Not yet in force
(1)
Where at the time when a person first becomes entitled to a retirement pension by virtue of regulation E4(4) or (5) there are exceptional circumstances of serious ill health affecting that person the Department may discharge its liability in respect of so much of that pension as exceeds the person’s guaranteed minimum by payment of a lump sum calculated in accordance with paragraph (2).
(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.
Annotations
Commencement
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Reg. E19 in operation at 2.11.1998, see reg. A1