{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-171D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992/section-171D.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/4",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-contributions-and-benefits-act-1992",
  "path": "section/171D",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "171D",
  "heading": "Incapacity for work: persons to be treated as incapable or capable of work.",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may provide that a person shall be treated as capable of work, or as incapable of work, in such cases or circumstances as may be prescribed.\n(2) Regulations may, in particular, provide that a person shall be treated as capable of work if he does work of a prescribed description, or more than the prescribed amount of work of a prescribed description.\nAccordingly regulations may provide that a person shall not be treated as capable of work by reason only of his doing such work as may be prescribed, or no more than the prescribed amount of work of a prescribed description.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Pt. 12A inserted (18.11.1994 for specified purposes, 13.4.1995 in so far as not already in force) by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18), ss. 5, 16(3) (with ss. 4, 7); S.I. 1994/2926, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2 (with The Social Security (Incapacity Benefit) (Transitional) Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/310), regs. 1(1), 11, 17, 29)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Ss. 171D-171G inserted (18.11.1994 for specified purposes, 13.4.1995 in so far as not already in force) by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18), ss. 6(1), 16(3); S.I. 1994/2926, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 171D restricted (18.11.1994 for specified purposes, 13.4.1995 in so far as not already in force) by Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Act 1994 (c. 18), ss. 6(3)(a), 16(3); S.I. 1994/2926, art. 2(2), Sch. Pt. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "S. 171D power to make regulations modified (21.5.1998) by Social Security Act 1998 (c. 14), ss. 77, 87(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/4/section/171D",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:29.915383+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."
}