{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2000/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2000/4",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-incapacity-for-work-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-northern-ireland-2000",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1976 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) In regulation 1(2) (interpretation)—\n(a) the definition of “the all work test” shall be omitted; and\n(b) after the definition of “doctor” there shall be inserted the following definition—\n““personal capability assessment” means the assessment provided for in section 167C of the Contributions and Benefits Act;”.\n(3) In regulation 2 (evidence of incapacity for work and confinement)—\n(a) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(b) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(c) in paragraph (2) for “all work test” there shall be substituted “personal capability assessment”.\n(4) In Schedule 1B—\n(a) in Part I in paragraphs 1, 2 and 3 for “all work test statement” there shall be substituted “personal capability assessment statement”; and\n(b) in Part II—\n(i) for “all work test” in both places where it occurs there shall be substituted “personal capability assessment”; and\n(ii) for “the all work assessment” there shall be substituted “the assessment”.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 3(3)(a)-(b) revoked (6.4.2010) by The Social Security (Medical Evidence) and Statutory Sick Pay (Medical Evidence) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (S.R. 2010/55), reg. 1, Sch. 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 3 in operation at 3.4.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.R. 1976 No. 175; relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1982 No. 153, S.R. 1992 No. 83, S.R. 1994 No. 468 and S.R. 1995 No. 149"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "The definition of “the all work test” was inserted by regulation 2(2) of S.R. 1994 No. 468"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Paragraph (2) was amended by regulation 2(3)(b) of S.R. 1994 No. 468"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Schedule 1B was inserted by regulation 2(5) of S.R. 1994 No. 468 and amended by regulation 2(3) of S.R. 1995 No. 149"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2000/4/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:16:59.733487+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."
}