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ANNEXTHE NEW FIREFIGHTERS’ PENSION SCHEME (NORTHERN IRELAND)

PART 9REVIEW, WITHDRAWAL AND FORFEITURE OF AWARDS

Review of ill-health pension

49.—(1) So long as a person—

(a)has been in receipt of an ill–health pension for less than 10 years; and

(b)is under state pensionable age,

the Board shall consider, at such intervals as it thinks proper, whether he has become capable—

(i)of performing any duty appropriate to the role from which he retired on grounds of ill–health; and

(ii)of undertaking regular employment.

(2) The Board shall, at such intervals as it thinks proper, consider in relation to a person whose deferred pension is being paid early by virtue of article 13(4) (early payment of deferred pension on permanent disablement), the same matters as they are required to consider in relation to persons of the description mentioned in paragraph (1).