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Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 5 Cited in Amendments 17 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1976/615
(1) These regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976, and shall come into operation on 4th October 1976.(2) In these regulations, unless the context otherwise requires—
  • “the Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;
  • F9“the Contributions and Benefits Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
  • “doctor” means a registered medical practitioner;
  • F80“healthcare professional” means a person, not being the patient, who is—
    • (a) a registered medical practitioner;
    • (b) a registered nurse;
    • (c) a registered occupational therapist or registered physiotherapist;
    • (d) a registered pharmacist within the meaning of article 3 of the Pharmacy Order 2010;
  • F22“the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations” means the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008;
  • F36“limited capability for work” has the meaning—
    • (a) for the purposes of employment and support allowance, given in section 1(4) of the Welfare Reform Act 2007; and
    • (b) for the purposes of universal credit, given in section 37 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012;
  • F37“limited capability for work assessment” means the assessment of whether a person has limited capability for work—
    • (a) for the purposes of old style ESA, under Part 5 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations;
    • (b) for the purposes of new style ESA, under Part 4 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013;
    • (c) for the purposes of universal credit, under Part 5 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013;
  • F13“personal capability assessment” means the assessment provided for in section 171C of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
    • ...
  • F17“registered midwife” means a midwife who is registered as a midwife with the Nursing and Midwifery Council under the Nursing and Midwifery Order 2001;
  • “signature” means, in relation to any statement or certificate given in accordance with these regulations, the name by which the person giving that statement or certificate, as the case may be, is usually known (any name other than the surname being either in full or otherwise indicated) written by that person in his own handwriting; and “signed” shall be construed accordingly.
(3) Any reference in these regulations to any provisions made by or contained in any enactment or instrument shall, except in so far as the context otherwise requires, be construed as a reference to that provision as amended or extended by any enactment or instrument and as including a reference to any provision which it re-enacts or replaces, or which may re-enact or replace it, with or without modification.(4) The rules for the construction of Acts of Parliament contained in the Interpretation Act 1889 shall apply in relation to this instrument and in relation to the revocation effected by it as if this instrument, the regulations revoked by it and regulations revoked by the regulations so revoked were Acts of Parliament, and as if each revocation were a repeal.“old style ESA” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 as that Part has effect apart from the amendments made by Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 that remove references to an income-related allowance; and“new style ESA” means an allowance under Part 1 of the Welfare Reform Act 2007 as amended by the provisions of Schedule 3, and Part 1 of Schedule 14, to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 that remove references to an income-related allowance.(1) Subject to regulation 5 and paragraph (1A) below, where a person claims to be entitled to any benefit, allowance or advantage (other than industrial injuries benefit or statutory sick pay) and entitlement to that benefit, allowance or advantage depends on that person being incapable of work or having limited capability for work, then in respect of each day until that person has been assessed for the purposes of the personal capability assessment or the limited capability for work assessment they shall provide evidence of such incapacity or limited capability by means of a statement given by a F81healthcare professional in accordance with the rules set out in Part 1 of Schedule 1 to these Regulations.(1A) Where it would be unreasonable to require a person to provide a statement in accordance with paragraph (1) above that person shall provide such other evidence as may be sufficient to show that they are incapable of work or have limited capability for work so that they should refrain (or should have refrained) from work by reason of some specific disease or bodily or mental disability.(2) Every person to whom paragraph (1) applies F10who has not been assessed for the purposes of the F14personal capability assessmentF24or the limited capability for work assessment shall, before he returns to work, furnish evidence of the date on which he will become fit to resume work either in accordance with rule 10 of Part I of Schedule 1 to these regulations, or by such other means as may be sufficient in the circumstances of the case.where the claim is made in respect of expectation of confinement, that she is pregnant and as to the stage which she has reached in her pregnancy; orwhere the claim is made by virtue of the fact of confinement, that she has been confined,

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