PART 6N.I.Retirement benefits

CHAPTER 4N.I. [F1Ill-Health] benefits

Textual Amendments

Meaning of “incapacity for employment” and “total incapacity for employment”N.I.

71.  For the purpose of these Regulations—

(a)a member’s breakdown in health involves “incapacity for employment” if the scheme medical adviser is of the opinion that, as a result of the breakdown, the member is incapable of doing the member’s own or comparable job; and

(b)a member’s breakdown in health involves “total incapacity for employment” if the scheme medical adviser is of the opinion that, as a result of the breakdown—

(i)the member is incapable of doing the member’s own or comparable job; and

(ii)the member is incapable of gainful employment.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 71 in operation at 1.4.2015, see reg. 1(3)