Statutory Instrument 1995 No. 311

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


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1995 No. 311

SOCIAL SECURITY

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

Made 10th February 1995
Coming into force 13th April 1995


ARRANGEMENT OF REGULATIONS

PART I
General
1.  Citation and commencement
2.  Interpretion
3.  Application
PART II
General provisions relating to incapacity for work
CHAPTER I:
Own occupation test
4.  Definition of "remunerative work"
5.  Person with more than one occupation
CHAPTER II:
Information and evidence
6.  Information required for determining capacity for work
7.  Failure to provide information
8.  Person may be called for a medical examination
9.  Matters to be taken into account in determining good cause
CHAPTER III:
Persons treated as incapable
10.  Certain persons with a severe condition to be treated as incapable of work
11.  Person with an infectious or contagious disease
12.  Hospital in-patients
13.  Person receiving certain regular treatment
14.  Pregnancy
15.  Person to be treated as incapable of work throughout a day
CHAPTER IV:
Treating as capable, disqualification etc.
16.  Person who works to be treated as capable of work
17.  Exempt work
18.  Disqualification for misconduct etc.
CHAPTER V:
Adjudication
19.  Effect of a determination as to capacity for work
20.  Adjudication officer to determine capacity for work
21.  Social security appeal tribunal to sit with a medical assessor
22.  Appointment of medical assessors
PART III
All work test
23.  Interpretation of Part III and the Schedule
24.  The all work test
25.  Assessment under the all work test
26.  Calculation of scores
27.  Exceptional circumstances
28.  Conditions for treating the all work test as satisfied until assessment

  SCHEDULE  Disabilities which may make a person incapable of work
  Part I: Physical Disabilities
  Part II: Mental Disabilities

 

Explanatory Note


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