{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-commissioners-procedure-northern-ireland-regulations-2005/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-commissioners-procedure-northern-ireland-regulations-2005/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/965",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Appeal Commissioners (Procedure) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-commissioners-procedure-northern-ireland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Non-disclosure of medical evidence",
  "text": "(1) Where, in any proceedings, there is before a Commissioner medical evidence relating to a person which has not been disclosed to that person and, in the opinion of the Commissioner, the disclosure to that person of that evidence would be harmful to his health, such evidence shall not be disclosed to that person.\n(2) Evidence such as is mentioned in paragraph (1) –\n(a) shall not be disclosed to any person acting for or representing the person to whom it relates; or\n(b) in a case where an application for leave or appeal is made by reference to the disability of a person other than the applicant or appellant and the evidence relates to that other person, shall not be disclosed to the applicant or appellant or any person acting for or representing the applicant or appellant, unless the Commissioner considers that it is in the interests of the person to whom the evidence relates to disclose it.\n(3) Non-disclosure under paragraph (1) or (2) does not preclude the Commissioner from taking the evidence concerned into account for the purpose of the proceedings.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/965/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:00:44.375485+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."
}