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20. A claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work if—
(a)the claimant is terminally ill;
(b)the claimant is—
(i)receiving treatment by way of intravenous, intraperitoneal or intrathecal chemotherapy, or
(ii)recovering from that treatment and the Department is satisfied the claimant should be treated as having limited capability for work;
(c)the claimant is—
(i)excluded or abstains from work, or from work of such a kind, pursuant to a request or notice in writing lawfully made under a statutory provision, or
(ii)otherwise prevented from working pursuant to a statutory provision,
by reason of the claimant being a carrier, or having been in contact with a case, of a relevant disease;
(d)in the case of a pregnant woman, there is a serious risk of damage to her health or to the health of her unborn child if she does not refrain from work;
(e)in the case of a pregnant woman, she—
(i)is within the maternity allowance period, and
(ii)is entitled to a maternity allowance under section 35(1) of the Contributions and Benefits Act(1);
(f)in the case of a pregnant woman whose expected or actual date of confinement has been certified in accordance with the Medical Evidence Regulations, on any day in the period—
(i)beginning with the first date of the 6th week before the expected week of her confinement or the actual date of her confinement, whichever is earlier, and
(ii)ending on the 14th day after the actual date of her confinement,
if she would have no entitlement to a maternity allowance or statutory maternity pay were she to make a claim in respect of that period.
Subsection (1) was substituted by Article 50(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/3147 (N.I. 11)) and amended by paragraph 2(a) of Schedule 1 to the Social Security Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 10 (N.I.))
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