{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-24",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-24.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1998/1506",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998",
  "path": "article/24",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "24",
  "heading": "Suspension and termination for failure to submit to medical examination",
  "text": "Regulations may make provision—\n(a) enabling the Department to require a person to whom a relevant benefit has been awarded to submit to medical examination;\n(b) for suspending payments of benefit, in whole or in part, in a case of a person who fails to submit himself to a medical examination to which he is required to submit in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a);\n(c) for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of any or all of the payments so suspended;\n(d) for entitlement to the benefit to cease, except in prescribed cases or circumstances, from a date not earlier than the date on which payments were suspended.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "mod. by SR 1999/349, 350"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "prosp. in pt. certain functions transf. by 2002 c. 21"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1506/article/24",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:40:59.445846+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."
}