{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-108",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-108.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1975/14",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Act 1975",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975",
  "path": "section/108",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "108",
  "heading": "Disablement questions",
  "text": "(1) In relation to industrial injuries benefit, the \" disablement questions \" are the questions—\n(a) whether the relevant accident has resulted in a loss of faculty;\n(b) at what degree the extent of disablement resulting from a loss of faculty is to be assessed, and what period is to be taken into account by the assessment.\n(2) The disablement questions shall be referred to and determined by a medical board or a medical appeal tribunal.\n(3) Schedule 12 to this Act has effect with respect to medical boards and medical appeal tribunals, and their proceedings.\n(4) Where the case of a claimant for disablement benefit has been referred by the insurance officer to a medical board for determination of the disablement questions and, on that or any other subsequent reference, the extent of the disablement is provisionally assessed, the case shall again be so referred not later than the end of the period taken into account by the provisional assessment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/section/108",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:40:38.067895+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."
}