Version Superseded: 01/04/1999
Point in time view as at 04/03/1999. This version of this provision has been superseded.
Social Security Act 1998, Section 20 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 06 March 2025. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations.
(1)This section applies where an appeal has been brought under section 12 above against a decision on a claim for a relevant benefit, or as to a person’s entitlement to such a benefit or to statutory sick pay or statutory maternity pay.
(2)An eligible person may, if prescribed conditions are satisfied, refer the person—
(a)in respect of whom the claim is made; or
(b)whose entitlement is at issue,
to a medical practitioner for such examination and report as appears to the eligible person to be necessary for the purpose of providing an appeal tribunal with information for use in determining the appeal.
In this subsection “eligible person” means a person who is eligible to be appointed as the sole member of an appeal tribunal, or to be nominated as the chairman of such a tribunal.
(3)At a hearing before an appeal tribunal, except in prescribed cases or circumstances, the tribunal—
(a)may not carry out a physical examination of the person mentioned in subsection (2) above; and
(b)may not require that person to undergo any physical test for the purpose of determining whether he satisfies the condition mentioned in section 73(1)(a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.
Commencement Information
I1S. 20 in force at 4.3.1999 for specified purposes by S.I. 1999/528, art. 2(a), Sch.
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