Part IDecisions and Appeals
C1Chapter IISocial Security Decisions and Appeals
Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
Suspension and termination of benefit
I124Suspension and termination for failure to submit to medical examination
Regulations may make provision—
a
enabling the Secretary of State to require a person to whom a relevant benefit has been awarded to submit to medical examination;
b
for suspending payments of benefit, in whole or in part, in a case of a person who fails to submit himself to a medical examination to which he is required to submit in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a) above;
c
for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of any or all of the payments so suspended;
d
for entitlement to the benefit to cease, except in prescribed cases or circumstances, from a date not earlier than the date on which payments were suspended.
Pt. 1 Ch. 2: power to transfer functions conferred (25.2.1999) by Social Security Contributions (Transfer of Functions, etc.) Act 1999 (c. 2), ss. 17, 28(2)(c) (with Sch. 8)