{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-limited-capability-for-work-and-limited-capability-for-work-related-activity-amendment-regulations-2011/regulation-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2011/228",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance (Limited Capability for Work and Limited Capability for Work-Related Activity) (Amendment) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-limited-capability-for-work-and-limited-capability-for-work-related-activity-amendment-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of the ESA Regulations",
  "text": "(1) The ESA Regulations are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 20 (certain claimants to be treated as having limited capability for work):—\n(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (b)(i), after “chemotherapy”, insert “, or is likely to receive such treatment within 6 months after the date of the determination under this sub-paragraph”; and\n(b) after paragraph (f) insert:—\n“(g) any of the descriptors at paragraph 15 or 16 of Schedule 3 apply to the claimant.”.\n(3) In regulation 25 (hospital in-patients), after paragraph (1) insert:—\n“(1A) The circumstances in which a claimant is to be regarded as undergoing treatment falling within paragraph (1) include where the claimant is attending a residential programme of rehabilitation for the treatment of drug or alcohol addiction.”.\n(4) In regulation 35(1) (certain claimants to be treated as having limited capability for work-related activity) at the end of sub-paragraph (b)(i), after “chemotherapy”, insert “, or is likely to receive such treatment within 6 months after the date of the determination under this sub-paragraph”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2011/228/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:18:37.874712+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."
}