# The Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1998, Article 24: Suspension and termination for failure to submit to medical examination


Regulations may make provision—
(a) enabling the Department to require a person to whom a relevant benefit has been awarded to submit to medical examination;
(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);
(c) for the subsequent making in prescribed circumstances of any or all of the payments so suspended;
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1998/1506/article/24 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-northern-ireland-order-1998/article-24
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