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8. •(a) Is the ratio of his years of creditable service as a police officer or firefighter to the total of all of his years of creditable service; • • (b) Is the retirement allowance that would be payable if all of his creditable service had been as a police officer or firefighter; (c) Is the ratio of his years of creditable service not as a police officer or fire- fighter to the total of all his years of creditable service; and (d) Is the retirement allowance that would be payable if all of his creditable service had been other than as a police officer or firefighter. SECTION 2- 219.9. Medical examiners. The commission may, from time to time, employ a physician or physicians, upon such terms and conditions as the commission may prescribe, who shall be known as the "medical examiners", and whose duty it shall be to conduct or approve all medical examinations required under the provisions of this article or by the commission. Such medical examiners shall when directed by the commission investigate all health or medical statements and certificates made by or in behalf of any person in connection with the pay- ment of money or with a claim for the payment of money to such person under this article, and shall report in writing to the commission their joint conclusions and recommendations, or their individual conclusions and recommendations, upon all such matters referred to them. SECTION 2- 219.10. Disability retirement. (a) Any member in service who has five or more years of creditable service may retire, or may be retired by his appointing authority, at any time prior to the member's normal retirement date on account of disability upon written notification to the commission made by the member or by his appointing authority setting forth at what date the retire- ment is to become effective; provided, that such effective date shall be after the member's last day of service but shall not be more than ninety days prior to the filing of such notification; provided, further, that the medical examiners, after a medical examination of the member for whom disability retirement is requested, shall certify that such member is, and has been continuously since such effective date if prior to the filing of such notification, mentally or physically incapacitated for the further performance of duty and that such incapacity is likely to be permanent and that such member should be retired. (b) The provisions of subsection (a) above to the contrary notwithstanding, the requirement of five years of creditable service as a prerequisite for disability retirement shall not be applicable to any member who satisfies the other requirements of subsection (a) and