SCHEDULE 4LIST OF PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES
Description of medical certificate | Enactment under or for the purpose of which certificate required | Alternative provider | |
|---|---|---|---|
1. To support a claim or to obtain 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 186579 Air Force (Constitution) Act 191780 Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 193981 Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 193982 Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 194283 Polish Resettlement Act 194784 Social Security Administration Act 199285 Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 199286 | ||
Social Security Act 199887 | Health care professional88 | ||
2. To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods. | Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 (schemes for distribution etc. of welfare foods)89 | Registered midwife or registered nurse90 | |
3. To secure registration of still‑birth. | Section 21 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (special provision as to registration of still‑birth)91 | Registered midwife | |
4. To establish unfitness for jury service. | Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act 199592 Court Of Session Act 198893 | ||
5. To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification of non-availability to take up employment owing to sickness. | Reserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 198594 | ||
6. To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity. | Paragraph 3(3) (b) of schedule 4 of Representation of the People Act 200095 | (a) | a registered nurse; |
(b) | a registered dentist; | ||
(c) | a registered dispensing optician or a registered optometrist; | ||
(d) | a registered pharmacist; | ||
(e) | a registered osteopath; | ||
(f) | a registered chiropractor | ||
(g) | a Christian Science practitioner; | ||
(h) | a person registered as a member of a profession to which the F1Health Professions Order 2001 for the time being extends; | ||
(i) | The manager of a care home service registered under a registered care home under Part 5 of the Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 201097; | ||
(j) | the warden of premises forming one of a group of premises provided for persons of pensionable age or disabled persons for which there is a resident warden, where the applicant states that he resides in such premises; | ||
(k) | a hospital manager (or a person on behalf of a manager) within the meaning of section 329 of the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 200398; or | ||
(l) | a person registered as a social worker | ||
7. To support applications for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances. | National Health Service (Scotland) Act 197899 National Health Service (Free Prescriptions and Charges for Drugs and Appliances) (Scotland) Regulations 2011100 | Registered midwife or health care professional | |
8. To support a claim by or on behalf of a severely mentally impaired person for exemption from liability to pay council tax or eligibility for a discount in respect of the amount of council tax payable. | Paragraph 2(1) (b) of schedule 1 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992101 | ||
10. To secure certification of cause of death. | Section 24 of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (certificate of cause of death)102 | ||