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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-general-regulations-northern-ireland-1995/regulation-8.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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Person may be called for a medical examination",
  "text": "(1) Where a question arises as to whether a person is capable of work, he may be called by or on behalf of a doctor approved by the Department 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": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "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"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1995/41/regulation/8",
    "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."
}