The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976

[F1 4.   Subject to rule 5 below, the diagnosis of—

(a) the disorder in respect of which the doctor is advising the claimant to refrain from work or, as the case may be, which has caused the claimant’s absence from work; and

(b) any other condition which could affect the claimant’s capacity for work,

shall be specified as precisely as the doctor’s knowledge of the claimant’s condition at the time of the examination permits.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 1B added (13.4.1995) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 1994 (S.I. 1994/2975), regs. 1(1), 3