# The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013, 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).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111532072/regulation/18 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18
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