# The Social Security (Industrial Injuries) (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 1997, Regulation 4: Insertion of regulation 48A into the Adjudication Regulations


After regulation 48 of the Adjudication Regulations (appeal against decision of adjudication officer) there shall be inserted the following regulation—
“Powers of adjudicating medical authority upon determining the question referred
48A Where a diagnosis or recrudescence question is referred to an adjudicating medical authority, that authority upon determining the question referred—
(a) may proceed to determine any diagnosis or recrudescence question which arises in connection therewith and any disablement question which arises in consequence thereof; and
(b) if it is determined that the disease is a recrudescence of an attack to which an earlier decision of an adjudicating medical authority or a medical appeal tribunal relates, may proceed to review that earlier decision under the provisions of section 47(4) of the Administration Act.”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/810/regulation/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-industrial-injuries-miscellaneous-amendments-regulations-1997/regulation-4
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