The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004

Regulation 21

SCHEDULE 4 LIST OF PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES

Description of medical certificate	Enactment under or for the purpose of which certificate required
1.  To support a claim or to obtain payment either personally or by proxy; to prove incapacity to work or for self-support for the purposes of an award by the Secretary of State; or to enable proxy to draw pensions etc.	Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act 1865(1) Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917(2) Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939(3) Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939(4) Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942(5) Polish Resettlement Act 1947(6) Social Security Administration Act 1992(7) Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(8) Social Security Act 1998(9)
2.  To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods	Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 (schemes for distribution etc of welfare foods)(10)
3.  To secure registration of still-birth	Section 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (special provision as to registration of still-birth) (11)
4.  To enable payment to be made to an institution or other person in case of mental disorder of persons entitled to payment from public funds	Section 142 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (pay, pensions etc of mentally disordered persons)(12)
5.  To establish unfitness for jury service	Juries Act 1974(13)
6.  To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification of non-availability to take up employment owing to sickness	Reserve Forces (Safeguarding of Employment) Act 1985(14)
7.  To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity	Representation of the People Act 1983(15)
8.  To support applications for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances	National Health Service Act 1977(16)
9.  To support a claim by or on behalf of a severely mentally impaired person for exemption from liability to pay the Council Tax or eligibility for a discount in respect of the amount of Council Tax payable	Local Government Finance Act 1992(17)

(1)

1865 c. 73.

(2)

1917 c. 51.

(3)

1939 c. 83.

(4)

1939 c. 82.

(5)

1942 c. 26.

(6)

1947 c. 19.

(7)

1992 c. 5.

(8)

1992 c. 4.

(9)

1998 c. 14.

(10)

1988 c. 7. Section 13 was amended by the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27), Schedule 6, paragraph 8(11)(a), and the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), Schedule 2, paragraph 94 and prospectively substituted by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 45), section 185.

(11)

1953 c. 20. Section 11 was amended by the Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c. 32) section 2 and by S.I. 1992/2395, article 2(3).

(12)

1983 c. 20. Section 142 was amended by S.I. 1999/1820.

(13)

1974 c. 23.

(14)

1985 c. 17.

(15)

1983 c. 2.

(16)

1977 c. 49.

(17)

1992 c. 14.