Regulation 12 Substitution of regulation E21I1

For regulation E21, substitute—

“Short-service serious ill-health grant

E21.

(1)

This regulation applies to a teacher if—

(a)

he or she was in pensionable employment for at least 12 months;

(b)

he or she is not qualified for retirement benefits or qualified for retirement benefits following further employment;

(c)

he or she ceases to be in pensionable employment because he or she satisfies the incapacity condition;

(d)

his or her application under regulation E36 (payment of benefits) is made within 12 months after the date on which his or her pensionable employment ceases; and

(e)

he or she has a life expectancy of less than a year.

(2)

A short-service serious ill-health grant is payable to a teacher to whom this regulation applies.

(3)

But no grant may be paid to a teacher who is 75 or over.

(4)

The amount of the grant is the teacher’s pensionable salary/12 x the teacher’s reckonable service (in years and fractions of a year).

(5)

For the purposes of this regulation, a teacher satisfies the incapacity condition if the teacher is incapacitated and is likely to be incapacitated permanently.”.