{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-2.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Severe sight impairment",
  "text": "A person (“P”) is to be treated as having severe sight impairment if—\n(a) P has HIV,\n(b) P has been diagnosed with any of the following conditions, secondary to advanced HIV disease—\n(i) optic neuropathy secondary to cryptococcal meningitis;\n(ii) cytomegalovirus retinitis;\n(iii) varicella zoster virus necrotising retinitis;\n(iv) herpes simplex virus necrotising retinitis;\n(v) toxoplasmosis chorioretinitis;\n(vi) cortical blindness secondary to progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy, and\n(c) a consultant ophthalmologist has certified that P is severely sight-impaired or blind.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268843/schedule/2/paragraph/2",
    "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."
}