{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-regulations-1995/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-regulations-1995/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/866",
  "legislation_title": "The National Health Service (Injury Benefits) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/national-health-service-injury-benefits-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Medical examination",
  "text": "The Secretary of State may require any person entitled, or claiming to be entitled, to an allowance under Part II of these Regulations, or under Part III of these Regulations on the grounds that he is incapable by reason of permanent ill-health or infirmity of mind or body of earning his own living, to submit to a medical examination by a registered medical practitioner selected by the Secretary of State, and in that event the Secretary of State shall also offer the person an opportunity of submitting a report from his own medical adviser as a result of an examination by him, and the Secretary of State shall take that report into consideration together with the report of the medical practitioner selected by the Secretary of State.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/866/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:12:19.481240+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."
}