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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-27.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/1995/41",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1995",
  "path": "regulation/27",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Exceptional circumstances",
  "text": "A person who does not satisfy the all work test shall be treated as incapable of work if in the opinion of a doctor approved by the Department—\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 3 months of the date on which the doctor so approved examines him, have a major surgical operation or other major therapeutic procedure.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/1996/601",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/4",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2000/4",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2007/332",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments No. 3) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007"
    },
    {
      "type": "substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2005/15",
      "affecting_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/41/regulation/27",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:42:55.888065+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."
}