# The National Health Service (General Medical Services) Regulations 1992, Schedule 9: LIST OF PRESCRIBED MEDICAL CERTIFICATES Column 1 Column 2 Description of Medical Certificate Short 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 1865 Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917 Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act 1939 Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939 Pensions (Mercantile Marine) Act 1942 Polish Resettlement Act 1947 Home Guard Act 1951 Social Security Act 1975 Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 Parts I and III of the Social Security and Housing Benefits Act 1982 Part II of, and Part V of, and Schedule 4 to, the Social Security Act 1986 2 To establish pregnancy for the purpose of obtaining welfare foods Section 13 of the Social Security Act 1988 3 To establish fitness to receive inhalational analgesia in childbirth Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors Act 1979 4 To secure registration of still-birth Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953 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 1983 6 To establish unfitness for jury service Juries Act 1974 7 To establish unfitness to attend for medical examination National Service Act 1948 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 1944 Reinstatement in Civil Employment Act 1950 Reserve Forces Act 1980 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 --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1992/635/schedule/9 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-general-medical-services-regulations-1992/schedule-9 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.