# Social Security Administration (Northern Ireland) Act 1992, Section 55A: Medical examinations of persons awarded attendance allowance or disability living allowance.

Extent: N.I.

Regulations may make provision—
(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;
(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
(c) for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of payments withheld in accordance with regulations under paragraph (b) above.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/8/section/55A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-northern-ireland-act-1992/section-55A
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