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• • • 9. (1) whose disability is compensable under the Virginia Workmen's Compensation Act (or would be so compensable except for the fact that the member is not considered an "employee" as defined by such Act); or (2) who is employed as a firefighter or police officer and whose disability is the result of respiratory disease, hypertension or heart disease, unless the medical examiners shall certify, on the basis of competent evidence, that such disability was not suffered in line of duty. SECTION 2- 219.11. Disability retirement allowance. (a) Upon retirement for disability as provided in section 2- 219.10 of this code on or after July 1, 1975, a member shall receive an annual retirement allowance monthly to him for life during his continued disability commencing on the first day of the month coinciding with or next following his date of retirement, in an amount computed as the larger of (1) and (2) following: (1) The excess, if any, of two percent of the member's average final compensation multiplied by the number of years of his disability - credited service, as herein defined, over the product of two and one -half percent of the member's annual primary social security benefit, multiplied by the number of years of his disability- credited service up to a maximum of twenty years. (2) One and thirty -five hundreths percent of the member's average final compensation, multiplied by the total number of years of his disability- credited service. (b) As used in subsection (a) above with respect to a member who retires for disability on or after the age of sixty, disability- credited service means the member's creditable service. With respect to a member who retires for disability prior to the age of sixty, disability- credited service means the smaller of (1) twice the member's years of creditable service, and (2) the number of years of creditable service the member would have completed at age sixty, had he remained in service to such age. (c) Any allowance payable to a member under this section shall be reduced by the amount of any payments made to such member as required by the Virginia Workmen's Compensation Act, and the excess of such allowance over such required payments, if any, shall be paid to such member. When the time for payment of compensation under such Act shall have elapsed, the member shall thereafter receive the full amount of the allowance provided by subsection (a) of this section monthly during his lifetime and continued disability.