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PART 6Retirement pensions payable on grounds of permanent medical unfitness

CHAPTER 1General

Permanent medical unfitness

75.—(1) In these Regulations, a reference to a member of a police force or a former member of a police force (“the member”) being permanently medically unfit is taken to be a reference to—

(a)the member being medically unfit at the time the selected medical practitioner decides the question; and

(b)that medical unfitness being at that time likely to be permanent.

(2) For the purpose of deciding whether or not the member’s medical unfitness is likely to be permanent, the member is taken to receive normal appropriate medical treatment.

(3) In this regulation, “appropriate medical treatment” does not include medical treatment that the police pension authority acting in exercise of its functions as scheme manager decides is reasonable for the member to refuse.

(4) The member may appeal under regulation 207 (appeals to Crown Court) or 208 (appeals to Secretary of State) against a decision of the police pension authority as to whether a refusal to accept medical treatment is reasonable.