{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-1995/regulation-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-1995/regulation-28.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1995/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-1995",
  "path": "regulation/28",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Conditions for treating a person as incapable of work until the personal capability assessment is carried out",
  "text": "(1) Where the question of whether a person is capable or incapable of work falls to be determined in accordance with the personal capability assessment that person shall, if the conditions set out in paragraph (2) are met, be treated as incapable of work in accordance with the personal capability assessment until such time as he has been assessed or he falls to be treated as capable of work in accordance with regulation 7 or 8.\n(2) The conditions are—\n(a) that the person provides evidence of his incapacity for work in accordance with the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 (which prescribe the form of doctor’s statement or other evidence required in each case); and\n(b) that it has not within the preceding 6 months been determined, in relation to his entitlement to any benefit, allowance or advantage which is dependent on him being incapable of work, that the person is capable of work, or is to be treated as capable of work under regulation 7 or 8, unless—\n(i) he is suffering from some specific disease or bodily or mental disablement which he was not suffering from at the time of that determination; or\n(ii) a disease or bodily or mental disablement which he was suffering from at the time of that determination has significantly worsened; or\n(iii) in the case of a person who was treated as capable of work under regulation 7 (failure to provide information), he has since provided the information requested by the Secretary of State under that regulation.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 28(1) substituted (3.4.2000) by The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3109), regs. 1(1), 3(5) (with reg. 4(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 28(2)(b) inserted (6.1.1997) by The Social Security (Incapacity for Work and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3207) , regs. 1(1) , 2(10)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 28(2)(b)(iii) substituted (3.4.1995) by The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1995 (S.I. 1995/987) , regs. 1(2) , 2(10)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/311/regulation/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T13:16:51.323517+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."
}