19EPayment on grounds of ill-health or incapacity

19E Payment on grounds of ill-health or incapacity

19E Payment on grounds of ill-health or incapacity

(1) The trustees may, on the written application of a former member, pay the former member the former member’s deferred pension on the ground of the former member’s ill-health or physical or mental incapacity.

(2) The trustees must not determine that a pension is payable under this section unless the trustees are satisfied that the former member would, if still a member, be incapable of performing the duties of a member because of ill-health or physical or mental incapacity.

(3) For the purposes of satisfying the trustees that a pension is payable under this section, the former member must provide such medical and other evidence or information as the trustees require.

(4) In particular, the medical evidence must include a certificate or certificates acceptable to the trustees, signed by 2 medical practitioners, certifying that the former member would, if still a member, be incapable of performing the duties of a member due to ill-health or physical or mental incapacity.

ss 19C–19F: Ins 1999 No 89, Sch 1 [5].