Mr. Don Culliton:

There is no hard and fast rule on that. It depends on the particular circumstances of the individual case. We start looking at this in a very detailed way once an officer is out on sick leave for in excess of 12 months. That said, we have had people on sick leave for longer than a year who have not retired then on the grounds of ill health but who have retired on those grounds subsequently after three or four years. It depends but it is assessed on a case by case basis.