Conditions for invalidity pension

(1) An insured person shall be entitled to a periodical payment (hereafter in these Regulations referred to as “invalidity pension”) if– (a) not less than one hundred and fifty contributions have been paid in respect of him since the appointed day; and Social Security 69 (b) in the last five consecutive contribution years immediately preceding the year in which he becomes an invalid not less than two hundred and fifty contributions have been paid in respect of or credited to him; or (c) in the thirteen weeks immediately preceding the week in which the incapacity for work leading to invalidity commences not less than five contributions have been paid in respect of or credited to the insured person. (2) Subject to these Regulations, an invalidity pension shall be payable as long as an insured person is an invalid. (3) Upon attaining the age of sixty, an insured person receiving invalidity pension shall continue to receive an invalidity pension for life.