{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-55",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-55.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/55",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "55",
  "heading": "Past affected financial loss award: overlapping awards",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies where more than one affected core application has been made establishing that a person (“Q”) is an eligible affected person by virtue of being a partner of an eligible infected person, and—\n(a) an award period determined for a relevant partner for the purposes of regulation 53 overlaps (whether wholly or partly) with an award period determined for a relevant SSP partner for the purposes of regulation 54, or\n(b) an annual amount is to be included in a relevant affected core payment for a relevant partner under regulation 53 in respect of the year beginning 1st January 2025 and a final year amount is to be included in a relevant core affected payment for a relevant SSP partner under regulation 54.\n(2) Where this regulation applies, the relevant financial loss amounts included in the relevant affected core payments for each overlapping year must not in total exceed the maximum AFL amount.\n(3) For the purposes of this regulation—\n(a) the “relevant financial loss amounts”, in relation to an overlapping year, are the annual amount of each affected financial loss award (determined in accordance with regulation 53) for that year and—\n(i) for any the year beginning before 1st January 2025, the annual amount of each PAFL award for that year (determined in accordance with regulation 54);\n(ii) for the year beginning 1st January 2025, the final year amount of each PAFL award for that year (determined in accordance with regulation 54);\n(b) the final year amount of a PAFL award to be included in a relevant affected core payment is to be treated as included in that payment in respect of the year beginning 1st January 2025;\n(c) “overlapping year” means—\n(i) a year which falls within—\n(aa) the award period for one or more of Q’s relevant partners, as determined for the purposes of regulation 53(5), and\n(bb) the award period for one or more of Q’s relevant SSP partners, as determined for the purposes of regulation 54(3)(a), or\n(ii) the year beginning 1st January 2025;\n(d) “relevant affected core payment”, in relation to Q, means an affected core payment that is made in respect of an application made establishing that Q is an eligible affected person by virtue of being the partner of a relevant partner or a relevant SSP partner;\n(e) “the maximum AFL amount”, in relation to an overlapping year, is—\n(i) £16,682, or\n(ii) if all of Q’s overlapping partners and overlapping SSP partners would have been 66 or over in that year, 50% of that amount;\n(f) “relevant partner” and “overlapping partner” are to be construed in accordance with regulation 53;\n(g) “relevant SSP partner” and “overlapping SSP partner” are to be construed in accordance with regulation 54.",
  "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/55",
    "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."
}