The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976

[F1 PART I rules

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 2 substituted (6.4.1987) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Amendment Regulations 1987 (S.I. 1987/409), regs. 1(1), 4

1.   In these rules any reference to a woman is a reference to the woman in respect of whom a maternity certificate is given in accordance with these rules.

2.   A maternity certificate shall be given by a doctor or registered midwife attending the woman and shall not be given by the woman herself.

3.   The maternity certificate shall be on a form provided by the Secretary of State for the purpose and the wording shall be that set out in the appropriate part of the form specified in Part II of this Schedule.

4.   Every maternity certificate shall be completed in ink or other indelible substance and shall contain the following particulars—

(a) the woman’s name;

(b) the week in which the woman is expected to be confined or, if the maternity certificate is given after confinement, the date of that confinement and the date the confinement was expected to take place F2 ...;

(c) the date of the examination on which the maternity certificate is based;

(d) the date on which the maternity certificate is signed; and

(e) [F3 the address of the doctor or, where the maternity certificate is signed by a registered midwife, the personal identification number given to her by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (“NMC”) on her registration in the register maintained under article 5 of the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001 and the expiry date of that registration]

and shall bear opposite the word “Signature”, the signature of the person giving the maternity certificate written after there has been entered on the maternity certificate the woman’s name and the expected date or, as the case may be, the date of the confinement.

Textual Amendments

F2 Words in Sch. 2 Pt. I para. 4(b) omitted (1.11.1991) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Amendment Regulations 1991 (S.I. 1991/2284), regs. 1, 21(a)

F3 Sch. 2 para. 4(e) substituted (1.8.2004) by The Health Act 1999 (Consequential Amendments) (Nursing and Midwifery) Order 2004 (S.I. 2004/1771), art. 1(1), Sch. para. 56(a)

5.   After a maternity certificate has been given, no further maternity certificate based on the same examination shall be furnished other than a maternity certificate by way of replacement of an original which has been lost or mislaid, in which case it shall be clearly marked “duplicate”.]