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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004/schedule-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2004/291",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/4",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "LIST OF PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES",
  "text": "Description of medical certificate\nEnactment under or for the purpose of which certificate required\n1. 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.\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 Administration Act 1992\nSocial Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992\nSocial Security Act 1998\n2. To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods\nSection 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 (schemes for distribution etc of welfare foods)\n3. To secure registration of still-birth\nSection 11 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 (special provision as to registration of still-birth)\n4. 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\nSection 142 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (pay, pensions etc of mentally disordered persons)\n5. To establish unfitness for jury service\nJuries Act 1974\n6. To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification of non-availability to take up employment owing to sickness\nReserve Forces (Safeguarding of Employment) Act 1985\n7. To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity\nRepresentation of the People Act 1983\n8. To support applications for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances\nNational Health Service Act 1977\n9. 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\nLocal Government Finance Act 1992",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1865 c. 73."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1917 c. 51."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1939 c. 83."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1939 c. 82."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "1942 c. 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1947 c. 19."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1998 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1988 c. 7. Section 13 was amended by the Social Security Act 1990 (c. 27), Schedule 6, paragraph 8(11)(a), and the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), Schedule 2, paragraph 94 and prospectively substituted by the Health and Social Care (Community Health and Standards) Act 2003 (c. 45), section 185."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1953 c. 20. Section 11 was amended by the Population (Statistics) Act 1960 (c. 32) section 2 and by S.I. 1992/2395, article 2(3)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1983 c. 20. Section 142 was amended by S.I. 1999/1820."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1974 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "1985 c. 17."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "1983 c. 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "1992 c. 14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  },
  "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."
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