{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "nisr/2005/15",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2005",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations",
  "text": "For regulation 27 of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995 (exceptional circumstances) there shall be substituted the following regulation –\n“27. A person who is not incapable of work in accordance with the personal capability assessment shall be treated as incapable of work if –\n(a) he suffers from a previously undiagnosed potentially life-threatening condition;\n(b) he suffers from some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement and, by reason of such disease or disablement, there would be a substantial risk to the mental or physical health of any person if he were found capable of work;\n(c) he suffers from a severe uncontrolled or uncontrollable disease; or\n(d) he will, within three months of the date on which the doctor examines him, have a major surgical operation or other major therapeutic procedure.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1995 No. 41; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1996 No. 601 and S.R. 2000 No. 4"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2005/15/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:54:40.907631+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."
}