{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-153",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008/regulation-153.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2008/794",
  "legislation_title": "The Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/employment-and-support-allowance-regulations-2008",
  "path": "regulation/153",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "153",
  "heading": "Absence to receive medical treatment",
  "text": "(1) A claimant is to continue to be entitled to an employment and support allowance during the first 26 weeks of a temporary absence from Great Britain if—\n(a) the period of absence is unlikely to exceed 52 weeks;\n(b) while absent from Great Britain, the claimant continues to satisfy the other conditions of entitlement to that employment and support allowance;\n(c) the claimant is absent from Great Britain solely—\n(i) in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of the claimant for a disease or bodily or mental disablement directly related to the claimant's limited capability for work which commenced before leaving Great Britain; or\n(ii) because the claimant is accompanying a dependent child in connection with arrangements made for the treatment of that child for a disease or bodily or mental disablement;\n(d) those arrangements relate to treatment—\n(i) outside Great Britain;\n(ii) during the period whilst the claimant is temporarily absent from Great Britain; and\n(iii) by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment; and\n(e) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In paragraph (1)(d)(iii), “appropriately qualified” means qualified to provide medical treatment, physiotherapy or a form of treatment which is similar to, or related to, either of those forms of treatment.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 153(1)(e) omitted (26.10.2009) by virtue of The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) (No. 4) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/2655), regs. 1(1), 11(15)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2008/794/regulation/153",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-06T03:37:55.280707+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."
}