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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015/schedule-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1862",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services Contracts) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-contracts-regulations-2015",
  "path": "schedule/2",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "List of prescribed medical certificates",
  "text": "Description of medical certificate\nEnactment under or for the purposes of which the certificate is required\n1 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.\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\nSocial Security Administration Act 1992\nSocial Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992\nSocial Security Act 1998\n. . .\n. . .\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 on non-availability to take up employment owing to sickness\nReserve Forces (Safeguard 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 1985\n8 To support applications for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances\nNational Health Service Act 2006\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 and Finance Act 1992",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (6.4.2020) by virtue of The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 29(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 2 omitted (6.4.2020) by virtue of The Healthy Start Scheme and Welfare Food (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/267), regs. 1(2), 29(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "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)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1917 c.51."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1939 c.83."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M4",
      "text": "1939 c.82."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M5",
      "text": "1992 c.5."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M6",
      "text": "1992 c.4."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M7",
      "text": "1998 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M8",
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M9",
      "text": "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M10",
      "text": "1974 c.23."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M11",
      "text": "1985 c.17."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M12",
      "text": "1985 c.50."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M13",
      "text": "2006 c.41."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M14",
      "text": "1992 c.14."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/1862/schedule/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:48.208183+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."
}