Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

Yn ddilys o 01/07/1997

[F1 Medical examinations] N.I.

Textual Amendments

F1 S. 55A and the precedingcross-heading inserted (1.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11), art. 17; S.R. 1997/316, art. 2, Sch.

[F2 55A Medical examinations of persons awarded attendance allowance or disability living allowance. N.I.

Regulations may make provision—

(a) enabling the Department to require a person to whom attendance allowance or disability living allowance has been awarded to submit to medical examination in prescribed circumstances;

(b) for withholding payments of benefit in prescribed circumstances where a person has failed to submit himself to a medical examination to which he has been required to submit in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a) above; and

(c) for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of payments withheld in accordance with regulations under paragraph (b) above.]

Textual Amendments

F2 S. 55A and the precedingcross-heading inserted (1.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11), art. 17; S.R. 1997/316, art. 2., Sch.