{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-4.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/4",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Neurological conditions resulting in long-term severe neurocognitive impairment",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) is to be treated as having a neurological condition resulting in long-term severe neurocognitive impairment if—\n(a) P has HIV,\n(b) P has been diagnosed with any of the following conditions—\n(i) HIV brain disease or cerebrovascular disease resulting in dementia or behavioural disorder;\n(ii) a legacy opportunistic central nervous system infection secondary to advanced HIV disease resulting in dementia or behavioural disorder,\n(c) HIV infection is the main underlying cause or a significant contributing factor to that condition, and\n(d) P has been assessed as needing at least level 2 care as a result of that condition.\n(2) P is also to be treated as having a neurological condition resulting in long-term severe neurocognitive impairment if—\n(a) P has an infection of Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C (or both) of severity level 4 and has been diagnosed with chronic hepatic encephalopathy in association with decompensated cirrhosis for a period of at least 4 years, and\n(b) P has been assessed as needing at least level 2 care as a result of that condition.",
  "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/4",
    "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."
}