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Schedule 9 LIST OF PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Column 1Column 2
Description of Medical CertificateShort title of enactment under or for the purpose of which certificate required
1

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 Secretary of State; or to enable proxy to draw pensions etc. }

Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions Act 1865f1
Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917f2
Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939f3
Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939f4
Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942f5
Polish Resettlement Act 1947f6
Home Guard Act 1951f7
Social Security Act 1975f8
Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975f9
Parts I and III of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982f10
Part II of, and Part V of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1986f11
2

To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods

Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988f12
3

To establish fitness to receive inhalational analgesia in childbirth

Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979f13
4

To secure registration of still-birth

Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953f14
5

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

Section 142 of the Mental Health Act 1983f15
6

To establish unfitness for jury service

Juries Act 1974f16
7

To establish unfitness to attend for medical examination

National Service Act 1948f17
8

To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification of non-availability to take up employment, owing to sickness }

Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1944f18
Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1950f19
Reserve Forces Act 1980f20
9

To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity.

Representation of the People Act 1983
10

To support application for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances.

National Health Service Act 1977
11

To support a claim by or on behalf of a severely mentally impaired person for exemption from liability to pay the community charge.

Local Government Finance Act 1988

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

28 & 29 Vict. c.73.

f2

7 & 8 Geo. 5 c.51.

f3

2 & 3 Geo. 6 c.83.

f4

2 & 3 Geo. 6 c.82.

f5

5 & 6 Geo. 6 c.26.

f6

10 & 11 Geo. 6 c.19.

f7

15 & 16 Geo. 6 and 1 Eliz. 2 c.8.

f8

1975 c. 14.

f9

1975 c. 16.

f10

1982 c. 24.

f11

1986 c. 50.

f12

1988 c. 7.

f13

1979 c. 36.

f14

1 and 2 Eliz. 2 c.72

f15

1983 c. 20.

f16

1974 c. 23.

f17

11 & 12 Geo. 6 c.64.

f18

7 & 8 Geo. 6 c.15.

f19

14 & 15 Geo. 6 c.10.

f20

1980 c. 9.