The Police Pensions (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2019

Amendment of the Police Pensions Regulations 1987

9.  After regulation M13 (commutation: small pensions)(1), insert—

“Commutation of the pension credit benefit: small pensions and serious ill-health

M13A.— (1) The police authority may commute the pension to which a pension credit member is entitled under regulation M11 for a lump sum in accordance with this regulation.

(2) If the pension credit member is suffering from serious ill-health before normal benefit age—

(a) the whole of the pension may be commuted, and

(b) the lump sum under paragraph (1) is an amount equal to the annual rate of the pension as at the time when it first becomes payable, multiplied by 5.

(3) If the aggregate of total benefits payable to the member, including those attributable (directly or indirectly) to pension credit rights, does not exceed £260 each year at normal benefit age—

(a) the whole of the pension may be commuted when the pension credit member attains the normal benefit age or when the pension sharing order takes effect if that is later, and

(b) the lump sum under paragraph (1) is the actuarial equivalent of the commuted pension, calculated from tables prepared by the scheme actuary.

(4) Where a pension is commuted under this regulation, the payment of the lump sum discharges the police authority from all liability in respect of benefits payable to or in respect of the pension credit member.

(5) In this regulation, “serious ill-health” means ill-health giving rise to a life expectancy of less than one year.”.

(1)

Regulation M13 was inserted by S.S.I. 2001/459.