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

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Medical examinations of persons awarded certain benefits

17.  After section 55 of the Administration Act insert—

Medical examinations

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..

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