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The Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997

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F1Medical examinations of persons awarded certain benefitsN.I.

17.  After section 55 of the Administration Act insert—

Medical examinationsN.I.
Medical examinations of persons awarded attendance allowance or disability living allowance.

55A.  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..

F1prosp. in pt. rep. by 1998 NI 10

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