|
|
Conditions for receipt.
[1993 s96(1)]
|
119.—(1) The contribution conditions for invalidity pension are that before the relevant date the claimant has—
|
|
| |
(a) qualifying contributions in respect of not less than 260 contribution weeks since his or her entry into insurance, and
|
|
| |
(b) qualifying contributions or credited contributions in respect of not less than 48 contribution weeks in the last complete contribution year before that date.
|
|
| [1993 s96(2)] |
(2) In this section “relevant date” means—
|
|
| |
(a) any date after the completion of one year of continuous incapacity for work, or
|
|
| |
(b) any lesser period that may be prescribed, subject to the conditions and in the circumstances that may be prescribed,
|
|
| |
where the insured person has entered into a continuous period of incapacity for work and he or she is subsequently proved to be permanently incapable of work.
|
|
| [1993 s96(3)] |
(3) In the case of a person who is in receipt of invalidity pension where—
|
|
| |
(a) the period of entitlement to invalidity pension began before 6 April 1987, or
|
|
| |
(b) the period of entitlement to invalidity pension began on or after 6 April 1987 but before 4 January 1988 and who, immediately before that date, had been in receipt of disability benefit for a period greater than 312 days,
|
|
| |
subsection (1)(a) shall be read as if “156” were substituted for “260”.
|
|
| [1993 s96(4)] |
(4) In the case of a person who is in receipt of invalidity pension where—
|
|
| |
(a) the period of entitlement to invalidity pension began on or after 6 April 1987 and before 4 January 1988, or
|
|
| |
(b) the period of entitlement to invalidity pension began on or after 4 January 1988 and who, immediately before that date, had been in receipt of disability benefit for a period greater than 312 days,
|
|
| |
subsection (1)(a) shall be read as if “208” were substituted for “260”.
|
|
| [1993 s96(5)] |
(5) Subsections (3) and (4) shall not apply to any claim for invalidity pension where the period of incapacity for work begins on or after 7 July 1988.
|
|
| [1993 s96(6)] |
(6) Regulations may provide for modifications of the contribution conditions set out in subsection (1).
|
