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37.—(1) A member in receipt of Tier 3 benefits who attains normal pension age continues to be entitled to receive retirement pension and ceases to be regarded as being in receipt of Tier 3 benefits from that date, and nothing in the remainder of this regulation applies to such a person.
(2) A member who receives Tier 3 benefits shall inform the former Scheme employer upon starting any employment while those benefits are in payment and shall answer any reasonable inquiries made by the authority about employment status including as to pay and hours worked.
(3) Payment of Tier 3 benefits shall cease if a member starts an employment which the Scheme employer determines to be gainful employment, or fails to answer inquiries made by the employer under paragraph (2), and the employer may recover any payment made in respect of any period before discontinuance during which the member was in an employment it has determined to be gainful employment.
(4) A Scheme employer may determine that an employee has started gainful employment for the purposes of paragraph (3) if it forms the reasonable view that the employment is likely to endure for at least 12 months and it is immaterial whether the employment does in fact endure for 12 months.
(5) A Scheme employer must review payment of Tier 3 benefits after they have been in payment for 18 months.
(6) A Scheme employer carrying out a review under paragraph (5) must make a decision under paragraph (7) about the member's entitlement after obtaining a further certificate from an IRMP as to whether, and if so when, the member will be likely to be capable of undertaking gainful employment.
(7) The decisions available to a Scheme employer reviewing payment of Tier 3 benefits to a member under paragraph (5) are as follows—
(a)to continue payment of Tier 3 benefits for any period up to the maximum permitted by regulation 35(7) (early payment of retirement pension on ill-health grounds: active members);
(b)to award Tier 2 benefits to the member from the date of the review decision if the authority is satisfied that the member—
(i)is permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment the member was engaged in, and either
(ii)is unlikely to be capable of undertaking gainful employment before normal pension age, or
(iii)is unlikely to be capable of undertaking any gainful employment within three years of leaving the employment, but is likely to be able to undertake gainful employment before reaching normal pension age; or
(c)to cease payment of benefits to the member.
(8) A member whose Tier 3 benefits are discontinued under paragraph (3) or (7)(c) is a deferred pensioner member from the date benefits are discontinued and shall not be entitled to any Tier 3 benefits in the future.
(9) A Scheme employer which determines that it is appropriate to discontinue payment of Tier 3 benefits for any reason shall notify the appropriate administering authority of the determination.
(10) A Scheme employer may, following a request for a review from a member in receipt of Tier 3 benefits or within 3 years after payment of Tier 3 benefits to a member are discontinued, make a determination to award Tier 2 benefits to that member from the date of the determination, if the employer is satisfied after obtaining a further certificate from an IRMP, that the member is permanently incapable of discharging efficiently the duties of the employment the member was engaged in, and either—
(a)is unlikely to be capable of undertaking gainful employment before normal pension age; or
(b)is unlikely to be capable of undertaking any gainful employment within three years of leaving the employment, but is likely to be able to undertake gainful employment before reaching normal pension age.
(11) The IRMP who provides a further certificate under paragraphs (6) or (10) may be the same IRMP who provided the first certificate under regulation 36(1) (role of the IRMP).
(12) Where the member's former employer has ceased to be a Scheme employer, the references in paragraphs (5) to (7), (9) and (10) are to be read as references to the member's appropriate administering authority.
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