[F1 Medical examinations]N.I.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 55A and the precedingcross-heading inserted (1.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11), art. 17; S.R. 1997/316, art. 2, Sch.
[F255AMedical examinations of persons awarded attendance allowance or disability living allowance.N.I.
Regulations may make provision—
(a)enabling the Department 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.]
Textual Amendments
F2S. 55A and the precedingcross-heading inserted (1.7.1997) by S.I. 1997/1182 (N.I. 11), art. 17; S.R. 1997/316, art. 2., Sch.