The minimum retirement age for an officer or a non-officer (other than a new entrant) is age 60. The minimum retirement age for a new entrant is age 65.
If you resign before the minimum retirement age -
(i) Other than on ill-health grounds with at least 2 years reckonable service and you are not transferring your service to another organisation whose pension scheme allows you for the reckoning of your service under the Education Sector Superannuation Scheme, or
(ii) On ill-health grounds with at least 2 years reckonable service and do not opt in writing to receive a short service gratuity
your pension and lump sum entitlements are preserved to your minimum retirement age. You must apply in writing for these benefits on reaching your minimum retirement age and they will be based on your reckonable service and on your pensionable pay on the date of your resignation, uprated by the appropriate cases between that date and your minimum retirement age.
Preserved benefit and lump sum under i) above will be become payable earlier than your minimum retirement age if you fall permanently ill before that date. Should you die before reaching your minimum retirement age, a preserved death gratuity (calculated in the same manner as a preserved lump sum) will be payable to your legal personal representative.