Section 129 - Police Regulation 2025 - Catastrophic or exceptional extension payments

129Catastrophic or exceptional extension payments

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129 Catastrophic or exceptional extension payments

(1) This section applies if—

(a) an incapacitated police officer is receiving payments under section 128 for—

(i) a catastrophic injury, or

(ii) an exceptional injury, and

(b) the incapacitated police officer has had a total incapacity for any work, whether or not as a police officer and whether or not for payment, because of the same injury for a continuous period of 3 years before making an application under paragraph (c), and

(c) the incapacitated police officer applies to the Commissioner for payments (catastrophic or exceptional extension payments) to be made under this section, and

(d) the application under paragraph (c) is made not more than 6 months before the 7-year period for the incapacitated police officer ends, and

(e) the incapacitated police officer is—

(i) a contributor to the State Authorities Superannuation Fund but not covered by the additional benefit under the State Authorities Superannuation Act 1987, and

(ii) an officer whose prescribed contribution to the cost to the State of the scheme under the Act, section 199C is prescribed under section 159.

(2) As soon as practicable after receiving an application for catastrophic or exceptional extension payments, the Commissioner must refer the application to the CEEP panel.

(3) The CEEP panel may ask the incapacitated police officer to give further information, or to undergo further assessment, to assist the panel in making the panel’s decision.

(4) If the incapacitated police officer fails to comply with a request under subsection (3)—

(a) the application by the incapacitated police officer is taken to have been suspended until the incapacitated police officer complies with the request, and

(b) if the incapacitated police officer later complies with the request—payments under this division to which the incapacitated police officer would have been entitled but for the failure to comply may be reinstated.