Social Security Act 2018 (Version 59)/Section 37

37⁠Supported living payment: on ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness: medical examination

(1)⁠This section applies to a person (P) who is an applicant for, or who is receiving, a supported living payment on the ground of restricted work capacity or total blindness.

(2)⁠MSD may at any time require P to undergo an examination by a prescribed health practitioner.

(3)⁠The prescribed health practitioner must be agreed for the purpose between P and MSD or, failing agreement, must be nominated by MSD.

(4)⁠The prescribed health practitioner must prepare, and must send MSD a copy of, a report that indicates—

(a)⁠whether P is (or whether there is doubt about whether P is)—

(i)⁠permanently and severely restricted in P’s capacity for work; or

(ii)⁠totally blind; and

(b)⁠the grounds on which the opinion given in paragraph (a) is based.

(5)⁠The report must, in the case of doubt referred to in subsection (4)(a), and may, in any other case, indicate a date for review of the permanency or severity, or both, of P’s health condition, injury, or disability.

Compare: 1964 No 136 s 40C