53.—(1) A claimant who is required to take part in a work-focused health-related assessment but fails to do so must show good cause for that failure within 5 working days of the date on which the Department gives notification of that failure.
(2) The Department must determine whether a claimant who is required to take part in a work-focused health-related assessment has failed to do so and, if so, whether the claimant has shown good cause for that failure in accordance with paragraph (1).
(3) In determining whether a claimant has shown good cause for the failure to take part in a work-focused health-related assessment, the Department must take the following matters into account—
(a)whether the claimant was outside Northern Ireland at the time of the notification;
(b)the claimant’s state of health at the time of the work-focused health-related assessment;
(c)the nature of any disability which the claimant has; and
(d)any other matter which the Department considers appropriate.