{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-66",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-66.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/66",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "66",
  "heading": "General provisions on evidence",
  "text": "(1) Where an application relates to a deceased person, the application must be accompanied by a document that is by law sufficient evidence of—\n(a) the grant of probate of the deceased person’s will,\n(b) the grant of letters of administration of the deceased person’s estate, or\n(c) confirmation of a person as the deceased person’s executor.\n(2) Where these Regulations would (but for this paragraph) require an application to be accompanied by evidence to establish a matter, the application need not be accompanied by that evidence if—\n(a) the IBCA is satisfied that the matter has been established on the basis of evidence it has otherwise obtained, and\n(b) the IBCA has notified the relevant person that the application need not be accompanied by evidence establishing that matter.\n(3) The IBCA may require a relevant person to give, in relation to the person in respect of whom an application is made—\n(a) details of any steps taken, or planned to be taken, to obtain a deductible damages payment within the meanings of regulation 6(3), and\n(b) a written undertaking that if a deductible damages payment is received the relevant person will notify the IBCA.\n(4) Nothing in these Regulations prevents the IBCA from requesting the provision or production of evidence that it requires for the purpose of determining an application.",
  "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/66",
    "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."
}