{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-7.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/144",
  "legislation_title": "The Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Disablement",
  "text": "(1) References in this Scheme to a person’s being permanently disabled are references to his being disabled at the time when the question arises for decision and to his disablement being at that time likely to be permanent.\n(2) In determining whether a disablement is permanent, the Board shall have regard to whether the disablement will continue until the person’s normal retirement age.\n(3) Disablement means incapacity, occasioned by infirmity of mind or body, for the performance of duty, except that in relation to a child it means incapacity, so occasioned, to earn a living.\n(4) Where a person has retired before becoming disabled and the date on which he becomes disabled cannot be ascertained, it shall be taken to be the date on which the claim that he is disabled is first made known to the Board.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme Pt. A art. 7 in operation at 1.4.2006, see art. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/144/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:56.968954+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}