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PART 7Retirement benefits

CHAPTER 2Full retirement benefits

Full retirement pension payable early on grounds of permanent medical unfitness (deferred members)

93.—(1) This regulation applies in relation to a deferred member of this scheme who becomes entitled under regulation 89(3) to payment of a full retirement pension on grounds of permanent medical unfitness.

(2) For the purpose of an appeal to the Department under regulation 206, the deferred member is taken to claim payment of the full retirement pension on the earlier of—

(a)the date on which the deferred member asked the police pension authority to refer the questions to the selected medical practitioner under regulation 84; or

(b)the date on which the police pension authority referred those questions on its own initiative.

(3) A full retirement pension calculated under regulation 97 (deferred members) is payable to the member in respect of each month as from the date on which the member is taken to claim payment of the pension under paragraph (2).