Regulation 18 Absence from Great Britain to receive medical treatment
(1)
Where C is temporarily absent from Great Britain, C is treated as present in Great Britain for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) for the first 26 weeks of that absence, where —
(a)
C’s absence is solely in connection with arrangements made for the medical treatment of C for a disease or bodily or mental disablement which commenced before C left Great Britain; and
(b)
the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1)(a) relate to medical treatment –
(i)
outside Great Britain;
(ii)
during the period whilst C is temporarily absent from Great Britain; and
(iii)
by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.
(2)
In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).