The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2008

Certain claimants to be treated as having limited capability for work-related activityN.I.

35.—(1) A claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work-related activity 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 that the claimant should be treated as having limited capability for work-related activity; or

(c)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-related activity.

(2) A claimant who does not have limited capability for work-related activity as determined in accordance with regulation 34(1) is to be treated as having limited capability for work-related activity if—

(a)the claimant suffers from some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement; and

(b)by reasons of such disease or disablement, there would be a substantial risk to the mental or physical health of any person if the claimant were found not to have limited capability for work-related activity.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 35 in operation at 27.10.2008, see reg. 1(1)