(1)  If an invalidity pensioner –

(a) is engaged in any business or occupation on his or her own account; or

(b) is undertaking gainful employment; or

(c) has recovered from his or her bodily infirmity, physical incapacity or mental incapacity so as to be able to undertake gainful employment in an occupation for which he or she is reasonably qualified by education, training or experience; or

(d) is in receipt of regular workers compensation payments under the Workers Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 and the combined payments of the invalidity pension and workers compensation payments exceed the salary received, or taken by the Board to have been received, in the previous 12 months –

the Board may –

(e) suspend the pension payable to that invalidity pensioner for such period, or until the happening of such an event, as the Board determines; or

(f) reduce the amount of that pension to an amount that, in the Board's opinion, the circumstances of the case warrant for such period, or until the happening of such an event, as the Board determines.

(2)  An invalidity pensioner must provide the Board with such evidence of his or her invalidity or financial circumstances as the Board may from time to time require, and in default of doing so, the Board may suspend payment of his or her invalidity pension during the continuance of the default.

(3)  Where –

(a) payment of an invalidity pension has been suspended under subregulation (2) ; and

(b) the invalidity pensioner subsequently provides the Board with the required evidence –

the Board may reinstate payment of his or her invalidity pension inclusive of any part of the period of that suspension.

(4)  If –

(a) the Board suspends or reduces the total and permanent incapacity pension or partial and permanent incapacity pension of an invalidity pensioner under subregulation (1) ; and

(b) he or she is again determined by the Board to be suffering from such bodily infirmity, physical incapacity or mental incapacity as to be retired –

the Board is to restore the invalidity pension to the rate that would have been payable to that invalidity pensioner if the pension had not been suspended or reduced.

(5)  Notwithstanding any other provision of these regulations, if a person who is in receipt of a total and permanent incapacity pension or a partial and permanent incapacity pension is reappointed as a permanent full-time or permanent part-time employee, he or she is obliged to contribute to the contributory scheme and –

(a) if he or she again retires due to age or invalidity, he or she is entitled to a pension calculated at the same rate as the rate at which the total and permanent incapacity pension or the partial and permanent incapacity pension that he or she was receiving immediately before his or her reappointment would have been payable if he or she had not been reappointed; or

(b) if he or she subsequently retires, he or she is entitled to a pension benefit calculated in accordance with any applicable provisions of Parts 5 and 7 but in any event the annual amount of that pension is not to be less than the annual amount of the invalidity pension that would have been payable if he or she had not been reappointed.