{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-fraud-northern-ireland-order-1997/article-17",
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  "legislation": "nisi/1997/1182",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security Administration (Fraud) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-fraud-northern-ireland-order-1997",
  "path": "article/17",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "17",
  "heading": "Medical examinations of persons awarded certain benefits",
  "text": "After section 55 of the Administration Act insert—\n“Medical examinations\nMedical examinations of persons awarded attendance allowance or disability living allowance.\n55A Regulations may make provision—\n(a) enabling the Department to require a person to whom attendance allowance or disability living allowance has been awarded to submit to medical examination in prescribed circumstances;\n(b) for withholding payments of benefit in prescribed circumstances where a person has failed to submit himself to a medical examination to which he has been required to submit in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a) above; and\n(c) for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of payments withheld in accordance with regulations under paragraph (b) above.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "prosp. in pt. rep. by 1998 NI 10"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1997/1182/article/17",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:41:21.049311+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."
}