{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1989/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1989/1686",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Medical Evidence, Claims and Payments) Amendment Regulations 1989",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-medical-evidence-claims-and-payments-amendment-regulations-1989",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5 of the Medical Evidence Regulations",
  "text": "For paragraph (1) of regulation 5 of the Medical Evidence Regulations (self-certificate for first 7 days of a spell of incapacity for work) there shall be substituted the following paragraph–\n“(1) Where a person claims sickness or invalidity benefit or severe disablement allowance, the evidence of incapacity required for the purpose of determining his right to benefit–\n(a) for a spell of incapacity which lasts less than 8 days, or\n(b) in respect of any of the first 7 days of a longer spell of incapacity;\nmay consist of a self certificate instead of a certificate in the form of a statement in writing given by a doctor in accordance with regulation 2(1).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1989/1686/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:37:07.537983+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."
}