PART 12 DISQUALIFICATION

93 Disqualification for misconduct etc.
1 Subject to paragraph (3), paragraph (2) applies where a claimant—
(a) has limited capability for work by reason of the claimant’s own misconduct, except in a case where the limited capability is due to a sexually transmitted disease;
(b) fails without good cause to attend for or submit to medical or other treatment (excluding vaccination, inoculation or surgery which the Department considers is major) recommended by a doctor with whom, or a hospital or similar institution with which, the claimant is undergoing medical treatment, which would be likely to remove the limitation on the claimant’s capability for work;
(c) fails without good cause to refrain from behaviour calculated to retard the claimant’s recovery to health; or
(d) is, without good cause, absent from the claimant’s place of residence without informing the Department where the claimant may be found.
2 A claimant referred to in paragraph (1) is to be disqualified for receiving an employment and support allowance for such period not exceeding 6 weeks as the Department may determine in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part II of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998.
S.I. 1998/1506 (N.I. 10)
3 Paragraph (2) does not apply where the claimant—
(a) is disqualified for receiving an employment and support allowance by virtue of regulations made under section 5B or 6 of the Social Security Fraud Act (Northern Ireland) 2001 (loss of benefit for commission of benefit offences); or
2001 c. 17 (N.I.); section 5B was inserted by section 19 of the Welfare reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2010 (c. 13 (N.I.)) and section 6 was amended by Schedule 6 to the Tax Credits Act 2002 (c. 21), paragraph 33 of Schedule 2 to the State Pension Credit Act (Northern Ireland) 2002 (c. 14 (N.I.)) and section 45(1) of the Welfare Reform Act (Northern Ireland) 2007 (c.2 (N.I.))
(b) is a person in hardship.
4 In this regulation, “doctor” means a registered medical practitioner, or in the case of a medical practitioner practising outside the United Kingdom, a person registered or recognised as such in the country in which the person undertakes medical practice.
Reg. 93 in operation at 27.9.2017, see reg. 1(2)