{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007/schedule-ANNEX/paragraph-50.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2007/215",
  "legislation_title": "The New Firefighters’ Pension Scheme Order (Northern Ireland) 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/new-firefighters-pension-scheme-order-northern-ireland-2007",
  "path": "schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/50",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": "Consequences of review",
  "text": "(1) If, on such consideration as is mentioned in article 49(1), it is found that a person who is in receipt of a higher tier ill–health pension has become capable of undertaking regular employment, his entitlement to that pension shall cease with immediate effect.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), a lower tier ill–health pension shall continue to be paid to a person who ceases to be entitled to a higher tier ill–health pension.\n(3) If—\n(a) on such consideration as is mentioned in article 49(1), it is found that a person who is in receipt of a lower tier ill–health pension has become capable of performing the duties appropriate to the role from which he retired on grounds of ill–health; and\n(b) the Board make him an offer of employment in that role (“a paragraph (3)(b) offer”),\nhis entitlement to a lower tier ill–health pension shall cease, with immediate effect, whether or not he accepts or declines the offer.\n(4) A person who accepts or declines a paragraph (3)(b) offer becomes entitled to a deferred pension under article 13.\n(5) If, on such consideration as is mentioned in article 49(2), it is found that a person whose deferred pension is being paid early has become capable of undertaking regular employment his entitlement to early payment of the deferred pension shall cease with immediate effect.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "ANNEX Scheme art. 50 in operation at 30.3.2007 (with effect in accordance with art. 2(1)), see art. 2(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2007/215/schedule/ANNEX/paragraph/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:41:07.019942+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."
}