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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/schedule-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/schedule-9.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1992/635",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992",
  "path": "schedule/9",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "LIST OF PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nDescription of Medical Certificate\nShort title of enactment 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 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. }\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\nHome Guard Act 1951\nSocial Security Act 1975\nIndustrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975\nParts I and III of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982\nPart II of, and Part V of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1986\n2 To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods\nSection 13 of the Social Security Act 1988\n3 To establish fitness to receive inhalational analgesia in childbirth\nNurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979\n4 To secure registration of still-birth\nBirths and Deaths Registration Act 1953\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\nSection 142 of the Mental Health Act 1983\n6 To establish unfitness for jury service\nJuries Act 1974\n7 To establish unfitness to attend for medical examination\nNational Service Act 1948\n8 To support late application for reinstatement in civil employment or notification of non-availability to take up employment, owing to sickness }\nReinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1944\nReinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1950\nReserve Forces Act 1980\n9 To enable a person to be registered as an absent voter on grounds of physical incapacity.\nRepresentation of the People Act 1983\n10 To support application for certificates conferring exemption from charges in respect of drugs, medicines and appliances.\nNational Health Service Act 1977\n11 To support a claim by or on behalf of a severely mentally impaired person for exemption from liability to pay the community charge.\nLocal Government Finance Act 1988",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "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": "15 & 16 Geo. 6 and 1 Eliz. 2 c.8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "text": "1975 c. 14."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1975 c. 16."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "1982 c. 24."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "1986 c. 50."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f12",
      "text": "1988 c. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f13",
      "text": "1979 c. 36."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f14",
      "text": "1 and 2 Eliz. 2 c.72"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f15",
      "text": "1983 c. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f16",
      "text": "1974 c. 23."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f17",
      "text": "11 & 12 Geo. 6 c.64."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f18",
      "text": "7 & 8 Geo. 6 c.15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f19",
      "text": "14 & 15 Geo. 6 c.10."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f20",
      "text": "1980 c. 9."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "added",
      "affecting": "uksi/1993/540",
      "affecting_title": "The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Amendment Regulations 1993"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/schedule/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:25:54.472536+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."
}