{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997/schedule-9.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1997/380",
  "legislation_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/general-medical-services-regulations-northern-ireland-1997",
  "path": "schedule/9",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "List of Medical Certificates",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nDescription of Medical Certificate\nShort title of enactment under or for purpose of which certificate required\n1 To support a claim or to obtain payment either personally or by proxy; to prove inability to work or incapacity for self-support for the purposes of an award by the Department; or to enable proxy to draw pensions etc.\nNaval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act 1865\nAir Force (Constitution) Act 1917\nPensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939\nPersonal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939\nPensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942\nPolish Resettlement Act 1947\nSocial Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992\nSocial Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992\n2 To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods.\nArticle 13 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1988\n3 To establish fitness to receive inhalational analgesia in childbirth.\nNurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979\n4 To secure the registration of still-births.\nBirths and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976\n5 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.\nMental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986\n6 To establish unfitness for jury service.\nJuries (Northern Ireland) Order 1996\n7 To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification of non-availability to take up employment, owing to sickness.\nReserve Forces (Safeguard of Employment) Act 1985\nReserve Forces Act 1980\nReserve Forces Act 1996\n8 To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity.\nRepresentation of the People Act 1985\nNorthern Ireland Assembly Elections Order 1982\nThe Local Elections (Northern Ireland) Order 1985\n9 To support application for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances.\nHealth and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 9 in operation at 6.10.1997, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "28 & 29 Vict. c. 73"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "7 & 8 Geo. 5 c. 51"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 83"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "2 & 3 Geo. 6 c. 82"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "5 & 6 Geo. 6 c. 26"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "10 & 11 Geo. 6 c. 19"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1992 c. 7"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1992 c. 8"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "S.I. 1988/594 (N.I. 2); Article 13 is amended by Schedule 7 to the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15)) and by paragraph 35(1) and (2) of Schedule 2 to the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Act 1992 (c. 9)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1979 c. 36"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/1041 (N.I. 14) as amended by the Still-Birth (Definition) (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (S.I. 1992/1310 (N.I. 10))"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/1141 (N.I. 6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "1985 c. 17"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "1980 c. 9"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "1996 c. 14"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "1985 c. 50"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f18",
      "text": "S.I. 1982/1135"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f19",
      "text": "S.I. 1985/454 substituted by Schedule 2 to S.I. 1987/168"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "nisr/1997/380",
      "affecting_title": "General Medical Services Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997"
    }
  ],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1997/380/schedule/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:27:33.456843+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}