{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-54",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-54.json",
  "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/54",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "54",
  "heading": "Past affected financial loss award",
  "text": "(1) The affected core award in relation to an eligible affected person (“Q”) must include an amount by way of a past affected financial loss award (a “PAFL award”) for the purpose of compensating Q for financial loss incurred as a result of the death of an eligible infected person (“P”) who is a relevant SSP partner of Q.\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation, P is a relevant SSP partner of Q if—\n(a) Q is an eligible affected person by virtue of being a partner of P,\n(b) P died on or before 31st December 2024, and\n(c) Q is an affected SSP recipient as a bereaved partner of P.\n(3) Subject to paragraphs (6) to (8), where P died before 1st January 2024, the amount of the PAFL award is the sum of—\n(a) an annual amount of £16,682 for the period which—\n(i) begins with the year immediately following the year in which P died, and\n(ii) ends with 2024, and\n(b) the final year amount.\n(4) Subject to paragraphs (7) and (8), where P died on or after 1st January 2024, the amount of the PAFL award is the final year amount.\n(5) The final year amount is—\n(a) £4,171, or\n(b) if P would have been 66 or older in the year beginning 1st January 2024, 50% of that amount.\n(6) Where an annual amount is determined pursuant to paragraph (3)(a), the annual amount for any year in which P would have been 66 or older is 50% of the annual amount that would (but for this paragraph) otherwise be determined.\n(7) Where—\n(a) Q has two or more relevant SSP partners who died before 1st January 2024, and\n(b) there are any overlapping years in their award periods,\nthe annual amounts of the PAFL awards included in the relevant affected core payments for those overlapping years must not in total exceed the maximum annual amount.\n(8) Where Q has two or more relevant SSP partners, the final year amounts of the PAFL awards included in the relevant affected core payments must not in total exceed the maximum final year amount.\n(9) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) the “award period” of a relevant SSP partner is the period determined in accordance with paragraph (3)(a) for that partner;\n(b) an “overlapping year” is a year which falls within the award period for two or more relevant SSP partners, and references to an “overlapping SSP partner” are to be construed accordingly;\n(c) “relevant affected core payment”, in relation to Q, means an affected core payment that is made to Q in respect of an application establishing that Q is an eligible affected person by virtue of being the partner of a relevant SSP partner;\n(d) the maximum annual amount for an overlapping SSP year is—\n(i) £16,682, or\n(ii) where paragraph (6) applies to all of Q’s overlapping SSP partners in the particular year, 50% of that amount;\n(e) the maximum final year amount is—\n(i) £4,171, or\n(ii) where paragraph (6) applies to all of Q’s overlapping SSP partners in the year beginning 1st January 2024, 50% of that amount.",
  "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/54",
    "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."
}