Substitution of regulation E21
12. 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.”.