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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Severe psychiatric conditions",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) is to be treated as having a severe psychiatric condition if—\n(a) P has—\n(i) HIV, or\n(ii) an infection of Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C (or both) of severity level 2, 3 or 4,\n(b) a consultant psychiatrist has—\n(i) diagnosed P with a condition described in sub-paragraph (2), and\n(ii) confirmed that P’s infection or any consequent interferon treatment is the cause, or a major cause, of the condition or of its course, and\n(c) as a result of the condition, P has received—\n(i) consultant-led secondary mental health treatment for a period of at least 6 months, or\n(ii) assessment or treatment as an inpatient (compulsorily or otherwise).\n(2) The descriptions of condition referred to in paragraph (1)(b)(i) are—\n(a) depressive disorders;\n(b) bipolar disorders;\n(c) generalised anxiety or panic disorders;\n(d) post-traumatic stress disorders;\n(e) adjustment disorders;\n(f) secondary psychotic disorders caused by—\n(i) HIV brain disease;\n(ii) HIV-related central nervous system opportunistic infection;\n(iii) neoplasia.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2025/9780348268843/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}