The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme (Wales) Regulations 2015

Employer additional contribution: ill-health award

127.—(1) Where a member (H) has retired with an entitlement to the immediate payment of a higher tier ill-health pension and a lower tier ill-health pension under regulation 74(2) (entitlement to lower tier ill-health pension and higher tier ill-health pension), H’s employer must pay a higher tier ill-health additional contribution.

(2) The amount of the higher tier ill-health additional contribution is the amount determined and notified to H’s employer by the Welsh Ministers.

(3) Where a member (L) has retired with an entitlement to the immediate payment of a lower tier ill-health pension and without any entitlement to a higher tier ill-health pension, L’s employer must pay a lower tier ill-health additional contribution.

(4) The amount of the lower tier ill-health additional contribution is the amount determined and notified to L’s employer by the Welsh Ministers.

(5) The employer must pay the higher tier ill health additional contribution or the lower tier ill health additional contribution, as the case may be, in equal instalments due on:

(a) the date on which the member retires;

(b) 1 April of the financial year following the financial year in which the first instalment was paid; and

(c) 1 April of the financial year following the financial year in which the second instalment was paid.