{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-1995/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-1995/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Person may be called for a medical examination",
  "text": "(1) Where it falls to be determined whether a person is capable of work, he may be called by or on behalf of a health care professional approved by the Secretary of State to attend for a medical examination.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3) where a person fails without good cause to attend for or submit himself to such an examination, he shall be treated as capable of work.\n(3) A person shall not be treated as capable of work under paragraph (2) unless written notice of the time and place for the examination was sent to him at least 7 days beforehand, or unless he agreed to accept a shorter period of notice.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (3.4.2000) by The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) Miscellaneous Amendments Regulations 1999 (S.I. 1999/3109), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 8(1) substituted (3.7.2007) by Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No.2) Regulations 2007 (S.I. 2007/1626), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/311/regulation/8",
    "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."
}