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The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I GENERAL

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

    3. 3.Application

  3. PART II GENERAL PROVISIONS RELATING TO INCAPACITY FOR WORK

    1. CHAPTER I OWN OCCUPATION TEST

      1. 4.Definition of “remunerative work”

      2. 5.Person with more than one occupation

    2. CHAPTER II INFORMATION AND EVIDENCE

      1. 6.Information required for determining capacity for work

      2. 7.Failure to provide information

      3. 8.Person may be called for a medical examination

      4. 9.Matters to be taken into account in determining good cause

    3. CHAPTER III PERSONS TREATED AS INCAPABLE

      1. 10.Certain persons with a severe condition to be treated as incapable of work

      2. 11.Person with an infectious or contagious disease

      3. 12.Hospital in-patients

      4. 13.Person receiving certain regular treatment

      5. 14.Pregnancy

      6. 15.Person to be treated as incapable of work throughout a day

    4. CHAPTER IV TREATING AS CAPABLE, DISQUALIFICATION ETC.

      1. 16.Person who works to be treated as capable of work

      2. 17.Exempt work

      3. 18.Disqualification for misconduct etc.

    5. CHAPTER V ADJUDICATION

      1. 19.Effect of a determination as to capacity for work

      2. 20.Adjudication officer to determine capacity for work

      3. 21.Social security appeal tribunal to sit with a medical assessor

      4. 22.Appointment of medical assessors

  4. PART III ALL WORK TEST

    1. 23.Interpretation of Part III and the Schedule

    2. 24.The all work test

    3. 25.Assessment under the all work test

    4. 26.Calculation of scores

    5. 27.Exceptional circumstances

    6. 28.Conditions for treating the all work test as satisfied until assessment

  5. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE

      DISABILITIES WHICH MAY MAKE A PERSON INCAPABLE OF WORK

      1. part i PHYSICAL DISABILITIES

      2. part ii MENTAL DISABILITIES

  7. Explanatory Note

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