The Social Security (Incapacity) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 2000

Amendment of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976

6.  The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976(1) shall be amended as follows–

(a) in regulation 2(2)–

(i) in paragraph (1), for the words “all work test” there shall be substituted the words “personal capability assessment”, and

(ii) in paragraph (1)(c), for the words “where the all work test applies ” there shall be substituted the words “where the question of whether a person is capable or incapable of work falls to be determined in accordance with the personal capability assessment”;

(b) in Part II of Schedule 1B (form of doctor’s statement), for the words “ all work assessment” there shall be substituted “personal capability assessment”.

(1)

S.I. 1976/615.

(2)

Regulation 2 was amended by S.I. 1982/699, 1987/409, 1992/247, 1994/2975, 1995/987 and 1999/3109.