# Social Security Act 1975, Section 113: Adjudication as to industrial diseases


(1) Regulations shall provide for applying, in relation—
(a) to claims for benefit under Chapter V of Part II of this Act; and
(b) to questions arising in connection with such claims or with awards of such benefit,
the provisions of this Part of this Act subject to any prescribed additions or modifications.
(2) Regulations for those purposes may in particular provide—
(a) for the establishment of special medical boards and the appointment of medical officers for the purposes of the regulations (including, in the case of any such board, the purposes for which medical boards and medical appeal tribunals are established under the foregoing provisions of this Part of this Act);
(b) for the payment by the prescribed persons of fees of the prescribed amount in connection with any medical examination by any such board or officer and their return in any prescribed cases, and (so far as not required to be returned) their payment into the National Insurance Fund and recovery as sums due to that Fund;
(c) for such matters as appear to the Secretary of State to be incidental to or consequential upon provisions included in the regulations by virtue of subsection (1) above and paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subsection.
(3) The Secretary of State may pay such remuneration to any member of a medical board established by virtue of this section and to any medical officer appointed by virtue thereof, and such travelling and other allowances (including compensation for loss of remunerative time) to any such member or officer, and such other expenses in connection with any such board or with the work of any such officer as the Secretary of State, with the consent of the Minister for the Civil Service, may determine:
Provided that compensation for loss of time shall not be paid to any person in respect of any time during which he is in receipt of remuneration under this subsection.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1975/14/section/113 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-act-1975/section-113
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