{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2025/9780348268843",
  "legislation_title": "The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Meaning of “eligible affected person”",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of these Regulations, a person is an eligible affected person if they are not deceased, and—\n(a) on or before the reference date, they were—\n(i) a partner of an eligible infected person,\n(ii) a parent of an eligible infected person,\n(iii) a child of an eligible infected person,\n(iv) a sibling of an eligible infected person, or\n(v) an unremunerated carer of an eligible infected person, and\n(b) that eligible infected person has an infection other than a single infection of Hepatitis C of severity level 1.\n(2) In paragraph (1)—\n“child of an eligible infected person” means a person—\n(a) who either—\n(i) an eligible infected person (“P”) had, or acted as if they had, parental responsibility for, or\n(ii) in the case of any marriage, civil partnership, or other relationship entered into as if it were a marriage or civil partnership, to which P was at any time a party, was treated by P as a child of the family in relation to that marriage, civil partnership or other relationship, and\n(b) who was cared for on a regular basis by P for a continuous period of at least 12 months ending with a day no later than the day before that person attained the age of 18 (including where that 12 month period occurred before P’s first year of infection);\n“parent of an eligible infected person” means a person—\n(a) who either—\n(i) had, or acted as if they had, parental responsibility for the eligible infected person (“P”), or\n(ii) in the case of any marriage, civil partnership, or other relationship entered into as if it were a marriage or civil partnership, to which that person was at any time a party, treated P as a child of the family in relation to that marriage, civil partnership or other relationship, and\n(b) who provided care for, or was but for the infection expected to provide care for, P on a regular basis whilst P was aged under 18 for a continuous period of at least 12 months ending with a day no later than the day before P attains the age of 18 (regardless of whether the first year of infection occurred before or after P attained the age of 18);\n“partner of an eligible infected person” means—\n(a) a person who was married to, or the civil partner, of an eligible infected person (“P”) and who lived with P for a continuous period of 12 months beginning with a date falling within or after P’s first year of infection, or\n(b) a person—\n(i) who could have married, or formed a civil partnership with, an eligible infected person (“P”) if the rules that apply to marrying or forming a civil partnership, other than rules about being married to or forming a civil partnership with more than one person, on the date of the application applied at the time of the infection, and\n(ii) who lived with P, and no other person, as if they were married or in a civil partnership for a continuous period of 12 months beginning with a date falling within or after P’s first year of infection;\nthe “reference date” is the later of—\n(a) 31st March 2025, or\n(b) the date of diagnosis of the eligible infected person in relation to whom a person is an eligible affected person;\n“sibling of an eligible infected person” means a sibling who lived, or was but for the infection expected to live, in the same household as the eligible infected person (“P”) for a continuous period of at least 24 months whilst the sibling was under the age of 18 (including where that 24 month period occurred before P’s first year of infection), and for these purposes “sibling” includes—\n(a) a sibling of the half-blood,\n(b) a step-sibling,\n(c) an adopted sibling, and\n(d) any person who was treated as a sibling;\n“unremunerated carer” means a person—\n(a) who, without reward or remuneration of any kind, provided to the eligible infected person (“P”) an average of 16.5 hours per week of care or support over a period of at least 6 months beginning with a date falling within or after the first year of infection, where—\n(i) the care or support was necessitated by P’s infection, and\n(ii) the level of the care or support was greater than they would otherwise reasonably have been expected to provide but for the infection and its consequences, and\n(b) who is not otherwise an eligible affected person by virtue of being a partner, parent, child or sibling of P.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268843/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:39:35.762697+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."
}