{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/404",
  "legislation_title": "The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Autonomy (core) award",
  "text": "(1) The infected core award in relation to an eligible infected person (“P”) must include an amount by way of an autonomy (core) award for the purpose of compensating for the distress and suffering caused by the impact of the infection on, and the interference with, that person’s family and private life and autonomy, including any—\n(a) loss of marriage or partnership prospects;\n(b) loss of the opportunity to have children;\n(c) impact on that person of attacks on that person’s home as a consequence of the infection;\n(d) impact on a person relating to having been infected during childhood.\n(1A) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), the amount of the autonomy (core) award is—\n(a) where P was infected as a child, A + B, where—\n(i) “A” is the basic autonomy amount, and\n(ii) “B” is the childhood infection amount;\n(b) where P was not infected as a child, the basic autonomy amount.\n(2) The basic autonomy amount is, where on the relevant date P has a single infection of—\n(a) Hepatitis C of severity level 1, £10,000;\n(b) Hepatitis B or Hepatitis C, and the severity of the infection is—\n(i) level 2 , level 2B or level 3, £40,000;\n(ii) level 4, £50,000;\n(c) Hepatitis B of severity level 5, £50,000;\n(d) HIV, £60,000.\n(3) Where P has a co-infection, the basic autonomy amount is £70,000.\n(3A) The childhood infection amount is, where on the day before the day on which P turned 18 P had a single infection of—\n(a) Hepatitis C of severity level 1, £5,000;\n(b) Hepatitis B or C, and the severity level of the infection was—\n(i) level 2, 2B or level 3, £20,000;\n(ii) level 4, £25,000;\n(c) Hepatitis B of severity level 5, £25,000;\n(d) HIV, £30,000.\n(3B) The childhood infection amount is, where on the day before the day on which P turned 18 P had a co-infection, £35,000.\n(4) Where P is also an eligible affected person, the amount of the autonomy (core) award is A – B, where—\n(a) “A” is the amount of the autonomy (core) award that would (but for this paragraph) be determined in accordance with paragraph (1A) to (3A);\n(b) “B” is the sum of any affected autonomy awards determined in relation to P in accordance with regulation 52.\n(5) Where the amount of the autonomy (core) award is less than £0, that amount is to be treated as £0.\n(6) In this regulation, “child” means a person aged 17 or under.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 18(1)(d) inserted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Reg. 18(1A) inserted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(2) substituted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(2)(b)(i) inserted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 3(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Reg. 18(3) substituted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Reg. 18(3A)(3B) inserted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(6)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(4)(a) substituted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Reg. 18(6) inserted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 5(8)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 in force at 31.3.2025, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/404/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:18:04.224964+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."
}