Regulation 7 Amendments relating to deeming the severity of Hepatitis infections

in paragraph (6)(b)(ii), at the end insert “(and each such year is a “deemed year”)”;

for paragraph (7) substitute—

“(7)

For the purposes of paragraph (6)(b)(ii), where on the relevant date the severity of P’s infection is—

(a)

level 2, the severity of P’s infection for each deemed year is level 2;

(b)

level 3, the severity of P’s infection is—

(i)

level 3 for each deemed year which falls within the 6-year period which ends with the final year;

(ii)

level 2 for every other deemed year;

(c)

level 4, the severity of P’s infection is—

(i)

level 4 for each deemed year which falls within the 4-year period which ends with the final year;

(ii)

level 3 for each deemed year which falls within the 6-year period which ends with the year immediately before the earliest year for which the severity of P’s infection is level 4 (whether that year is a deemed year or not);

(iii)

level 2 for every other deemed year.”.