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PART 6Retirement pensions payable on grounds of permanent medical unfitness

CHAPTER 2Compulsory ill-health retirement

Referral of medical questions for purpose of regulation 72

71.—(1) Before considering whether a person in service as a member of the police force (“the member”) should be compulsorily retired under regulation 72, the employer must refer the following questions to a selected medical practitioner for decision—

(a)whether the member is medically unfit for performing the ordinary duties of a member of the police force;

(b)whether that medical unfitness is likely to be permanent;

(c)whether the member is medically unfit for engaging in any regular employment; and

(d)whether that medical unfitness is likely to be permanent.

(2) The selected medical practitioner must—

(a)examine or interview the member as the selected medical practitioner thinks appropriate;

(b)decide the questions referred to the selected medical practitioner under paragraph (1); and

(c)give the employer and the member a report containing a decision on those questions.

(3) That report is final, subject to—

(a)an appeal under Schedule 1 against the decision of the selected medical practitioner; or

(b)the referral under Schedule 1 of the decision of the selected medical practitioner for reconsideration.