{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-11",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348276077",
  "legislation_title": "The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/11",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Amendments relating to support scheme payments for recently bereaved partners",
  "text": "(1) In regulation 59, after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) For the purposes of this Part, an IBSS-registered affected person (“A”) is in a recent bereavement period during the 12-month period beginning with the calendar month after the month in which the person in respect of whom A is an IBSS-registered affected person died.”.\n(2) In regulation 60—\n(a) in paragraph (4)(a)—\n(i) in paragraph (ii), after “where E is an IBSS-registered affected person” insert “who is, on the IBSS transfer date, not in a recent bereavement period”;\n(ii) after paragraph (ii) insert—\n“(iii) where E is an IBSS-registered affected person who is, on the IBSS transfer date, in a recent bereavement period, the amount determined in accordance with paragraph (4A).”;\n(b) after paragraph (4) insert—\n“(4A) Where E is an IBSS-registered affected person who is, on the IBSS transfer date, in a recent bereavement period, the IBSS category amount is the sum of—\n(a) (B ÷ 12) × M, where—\n(i) “B” is the amount specified in column 3 of the table in regulation 62 for the IBSS payment category which applied on 31st March 2025 to the person (“A”) in relation to whom E is an IBSS-registered affected person or would have applied to A on that date;\n(ii) “M” is the number of months during the IBSS transfer year during which E is in a recent bereavement period, and\n(b) ((B ÷ 12) × 0.75) × N, where—\n(i) “B” has the meaning given in sub-paragraph (a)(i);\n(ii) “N” is the number of months during the IBSS transfer year in which E is not in a recent bereavement period.”.\n(3) In regulation 63 (the IBSS amount: IBSS-registered affected persons)—\n(a) in paragraph (1), for “paragraph (3)” substitute “paragraphs (2A) and (3)”;\n(b) after paragraph (2) insert—\n“(2A) Subject to paragraph (3), where, at the beginning of a year during the Part 5 period other than the IBSS transfer year, A is in a recent bereavement period, the IBSS amount is the sum of—\n(a) (B ÷ 12) × M, where—\n(i) “B” is A’s relevant IBSS category amount;\n(ii) “M” is the number of months during the year during which E is in a recent bereavement period, and\n(b) ((B ÷ 12) × 0.75) × N, where—\n(i) “B” is A’s relevant IBSS category amount;\n(ii) “N” is the number of months during the year during which E is not in a recent bereavement period.”;\n(c) in paragraph (3), in the closing words, after “paragraph (1)” insert “or (2A)”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348276077/regulation/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:38:27.908882+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."
}