{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013/regulation-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2013/9780111531877",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/90",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Absence to receive medical treatment",
  "text": "(1) A claimant is to continue to be entitled to an employment and support allowance during the first 26 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain if—\n(a) the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks;\n(b) while absent from Great Britain, the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to that employment and support allowance;\n(c) the claimant is absent from Great Britain only—\n(i) in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of the claimant for a disease or bodily or mental disablement directly related to the claimant’s limited capability for work which commenced before leaving Great Britain; or\n(ii) because the claimant is accompanying a dependent child (which means any child or qualifying young person who is treated as the responsibility of the claimant or the claimant’s partner, where that child or young person is a member of the claimant’s household) in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of that child for a disease or bodily or mental disablement; and\n(d) those arrangements relate to treatment—\n(i) outside Great Britain;\n(ii) during the period whilst the claimant is temporarily absent from Great Britain; and\n(iii) by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.\n(2) In this regulation, “appropriately qualified” means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111531877/regulation/90",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:50:57.142115+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."
}