27. (1) The Long Term Income Protection Plan must, subject to subsection (6.1), provide the benefit described in subsection (3) to a justice of the peace who participates in the Plan and who is totally disabled, is under the care of or is receiving treatment from a legally qualified medical practitioner and is not, except for the purpose of rehabilitation, engaged in any occupation or employment for which he or she receives a wage or profit.  O. Reg. 400/01, s. 7; O. Reg. 56/16, s. 8 (1). (2) The justice of the peace is entitled to receive the benefit beginning immediately after a qualifying period of six continuous months of total disability and continuing until the earliest of, (a)  termination of the total disability; (b)  death; and (c)  the end of, (i)  the month in which the justice of the peace reaches 65 years of age, unless subclause (ii) applies, or (ii)  the month in which the justice of the peace reaches 70 years of age, in the case of a full-time justice of the peace who was receiving the benefit on December 31, 2008.  O. Reg. 400/01, s. 7; O. Reg. 233/09, s. 14; O. Reg. 56/16, s. 8 (2); O. Reg. 11/19, s. 17 (1). (2.1) Revoked: O. Reg. 11/19, s. 17 (2). (3) The amount of the annual benefit during a calendar year (the “payment year”) is the amount calculated using the formula, A – (B + C) in which, “A”  is, (a)  for the first payment year in which the benefit is paid, the following amount: (i)  in the case of a justice of the peace who incurs a disability before April 1, 2020, 66 ⅔ per cent of the justice of the peace’s regular salary immediately before the beginning of the qualifying period, (ii)  in the case of a justice of the peace who incurs a disability on or after April 1, 2020, 70 per cent of the justice of the peace’s regular salary on the day he or she becomes entitled to receive the benefit, and (b)  for each subsequent payment year, the amount of “A” for the previous year, increased by the average annual increase, expressed as a percentage, in the Ontario Consumer Price Index as published by Statistics Canada in January of the payment year, to a maximum of 2 per cent, “B”  is the total amount of the other disability and retirement benefits, if any, payable for the year to the justice of the peace under any other plans to which the justice of the peace contributes, other than payments under the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997 for an unrelated disability, and “C”  is 50 per cent of any rehabilitation earnings of the justice of the peace for the year. O. Reg. 400/01, s. 7; O. Reg. 56/16, s. 8 (4); O. Reg. 11/19, s. 17 (3). (4) Every justice of the peace who is appointed to office on or after March 1, 1971 shall participate in the Long Term Income Protection Plan.  O. Reg. 400/01, s. 7. (5) A justice of the peace who was appointed to office before March 1, 1971, (a)  where the justice of the peace was participating in the Long Term Income Protection Plan on December 19, 1975, is entitled to continue to participate in the Plan or to cease participating in the Plan; or (b)  where the justice of the peace was not participating in the Plan on December 19, 1975 is, upon producing evidence of medical eligibility satisfactory to the insurer under the Plan, entitled to participate in the Plan, and is thereafter entitled to cease participating in the Plan.  O. Reg. 400/01, s. 7. (6) The Crown shall pay the premium costs for every justice of the peace who participates in the Long Term Income Protection Plan. O. Reg. 11/19, s. 17 (5). (6.1) The Long Term Income Protection Plan shall require, as a condition of receiving benefits under the Plan, participation by every justice of the peace who incurs a disability on or after April 1, 2020 in any rehabilitation services specified by the insurance underwriter, and a failure to participate in such rehabilitation services is a breach of the condition. O. Reg. 56/16, s. 8 (6); O. Reg. 11/19, s. 17 (6). (7) In this section, “rehabilitation earnings” means earnings for service following directly after a period of total disability during which the justice of the peace is not fully recovered from the disability; (“gains de la période de réadaptation”) “total disability” means, (a)  during the qualifying period and the first 24 months of the period in respect of which benefits may be paid, the continuous inability of the justice of the peace, as a result of sickness or injury, to perform the essential duties of the justice of the peace’s normal occupation, and (b)  during the balance of the period in respect of which benefits may be paid, the inability of the justice of the peace, as the result of sickness or injury, to perform the essential duties of any gainful occupation for which the justice of the peace is reasonably fitted by education, training or experience, and “totally disabled” has a corresponding meaning. (“invalidité totale”) O. Reg. 400/01, s. 7.