Part IDecisions and Appeals

C1Chapter IISocial Security Decisions and Appeals

Annotations:
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
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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)

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.