The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015

Regulation 22

SCHEDULE 2 List of prescribed medical certificates

Description of medical certificate	Enactment under or for the purposes of which the certificate is required
1.  To support a claim or to obtain a 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) Social Security Administration Act 1992(5) Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(6) Social Security Act 1998(7)
2.  To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods	Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988(8) (Benefits under schemes for improving nutrition: pregnant women, mothers and children)
3.  To secure registration of still-birth	Section 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953(9) (special provision as to registration of still-birth)
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(10) (pay, pensions etc. of mentally disordered persons)
5.  To establish unfitness for jury service	Juries Act 1974(11)
6.  To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification on non-availability to take up employment owing to sickness	Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985(12)
7.  To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity	Representation of the People Act 1985(13)
8.  To support applications for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances	National Health Service Act 2006(14)
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 and Finance Act 1992(15)

(1)

1865 c.73. Section 3, which makes provision for the payment of naval and marine pay and pensions by Order in Council, was amended by section 4 of the Armed Forces (Pensions and Compensations) Act 2004 (c.32) and by section 378(1) of, and Schedule 16 to, the Armed Forces Act 2006 (c.52).

(2)

1917 c.51.

(3)

1939 c.83.

(4)

1939 c.82.

(5)

1992 c.5.

(6)

1992 c.4.

(7)

1998 c.14.

(8)

1988 c.7. Section 13 was substituted by section 185(1) of the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c.43).

(9)

1953 c.20. Section 11 was amended by section 2 of the Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c.32), section 23(4) of the Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 (c.36) and by S.I. 1968/1242 and S.I. 1996/2395.

(10)

1983 c.20. Section 142 of the Mental Health Act 1983 was repealed by section 67 of the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (c.9). See paragraph 29 of Schedule 6 to the Mental Capacity Act 2005 which enables payments made under section 142 before the date on which that provision was repealed to continue.

(11)

1974 c.23.

(12)

1985 c.17.

(13)

1985 c.50.

(14)

2006 c.41.

(15)

1992 c.14.