Reviews and medical examinations
17Reviews initiated by Secretary of State
(1)In section 30 of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (reviews of decisions about attendance allowance, disability living allowance or disability working allowance), after subsection (7) insert—
“(7A)The Secretary of State may undertake investigations to obtain information and evidence for the purposes of making applications under subsection (7) above.”
(2)In section 32(4)(b) of that Act (consideration on review of questions about component for life where information is available to give grounds for believing it ought not to continue), for “information is available to the adjudication officer” substitute “there has been supplied to the adjudication officer by the Secretary of State, or is otherwise available to him, information”.
18Medical examinations of persons awarded certain benefits
After section 57 of the [1992 c. 5.] Social Security Administration Act 1992 insert—
“Medical examinations
57AMedical examinations of persons awarded attendance allowance or disability living allowance
Regulations may make provision—
(a)enabling the Secretary of State to require a person to whom attendance allowance or disability living allowance has been awarded to submit to medical examination in prescribed circumstances;
(b)for withholding payments of benefit in prescribed circumstances where a person has failed to submit himself to a medical examination to which he has been required to submit in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a) above; and
(c)for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of payments withheld in accordance with regulations under paragraph (b) above.”