The National Health Service (Compensation for Premature Retirement) (Scotland) Regulations 2003

Payment of compensation

4.—(1) Subject to the provisions of these Regulations, an entitled officer shall be entitled, with effect from the material date, to receive from the Scottish Ministers compensation in accordance with paragraph (2) and, where the entitled officer is also entitled to a lump sum under regulation E7 of the Superannuation Scheme Regulations (lump sum on retirement), paragraph (3).

(2) The compensation payable in accordance with this paragraph shall consist of an annual allowance at a rate equal to the rate by which that pension would be increased in accordance with the Superannuation Scheme Regulations if a period equal to the period with which the entitled officer is credited under regulation 5 were added to the pensionable service in respect of which that pension is payable.

(3) The compensation payable in accordance with this paragraph shall consist of a lump sum equal to the amount by which the lump sum payable under regulation E7 of the Superannuation Scheme Regulations would be increased in accordance with those Regulations if a period equal to the period with which the entitled officer is credited under regulation 5 were added to the pensionable service in respect of which that lump sum is payable.