{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-57",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-57.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/57",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "57",
  "heading": "Eligibility for an affected supplemental payment",
  "text": "(1) This regulation applies to an eligible affected person (“Q”)—\n(a) if Q is—\n(i) a disabled child of a deceased eligible infected person (“P”) and Q is aged 18 or over,\n(ii) a parent of P, or\n(iii) a sibling of P, and\n(b) if—\n(i) where Q is a parent or a sibling of P, paragraph (2) applies to Q;\n(ii) where Q is a disabled child of P, paragraph (2) or (3) applies to Q.\n(2) This paragraph applies to Q if—\n(a) Q was financially dependent upon P on the date of P’s death and had been so financially dependent for the period of 6 months immediately preceding that date,\n(b) but for P’s death, Q had a reasonable expectation of receiving continued financial support from P, and\n(c) before P died, P had not accepted any offer for an IBCS payment.\n(3) This paragraph applies to Q if—\n(a) Q is a child of P and another eligible infected person,\n(b) P1 and P2 had both died when Q was aged 17 or under,\n(c) no IBCS payment was made in relation to either P1 or P2 on or before their respective dates of death,\n(d) Q was financially dependent upon P1 or P2 (or both) on the date of P1’s death by virtue of being a disabled child of P1 and P2 and being aged 17 or under,\n(e) Q was financially dependent on P2 on the date of P2’s death by virtue of being a disabled child of P1 and P2 and being aged 17 or under, and\n(f) Q had a reasonable expectation of receiving continued financial support from P1 or P2 (or both) by virtue of being a disabled child of P1 and P2 and being aged 18 or over.\n(4) For the purposes of this Chapter—\n(a) a child is disabled if they have a disability within the meaning of section 6 of the Equality Act 2010;\n(b) Q is financially dependent upon P if Q was dependent upon P for all or most of Q’s living expenses, including where Q receives contributions in kind towards those living expenses.\n(5) In this regulation and regulation 58—\n(a) “P1” refers to the eligible infected person who has the earliest date of death;\n(b) “P2” refers to the eligible infected person who has the latest date of death.",
  "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/57",
    "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."
}