17. After section 55 of the Administration Act insert—
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