{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/infected-blood-compensation-scheme-regulations-2025/schedule-2/paragraph-8.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": "schedule/2/paragraph/8",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Qualifying chronic Hepatitis-associated conditions",
  "text": "(1) A person (“P”) is to be treated as having a qualifying chronic Hepatitis-associated condition if—\n(a) P is an IBSS-registered infected person to whom a relevant payment category applies;\n(b) P is not an IBSS-registered infected person and sub-paragraph (2), (4) or (5) applies to P.\n(2) This sub-paragraph applies to P if it appears to the IBCA that, if P had been assessed by the England Infected Blood Support Scheme on 31st March 2025 on the basis of P's infection on the relevant date—\n(a) P would have been eligible for registration with the England Infected Blood Support Scheme, and\n(b) the Hepatitis C stage 1 and SCM payment category would have applied to P.\n(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(a), any eligibility requirement relating to the place where a person became infected is to be disregarded.\n(4) This sub-paragraph applies to P if sub-paragraph (2) would apply to P but for the fact that P contracted Hepatitis C on or after 1st September 1991.\n(5) This sub-paragraph applies to P if P has a Hepatitis B infection where—\n(a) the severity of the infection, and\n(b) the conditions associated with the infection,\nare such that, if P had a Hepatitis C infection of the same severity and with the same associated conditions, sub-paragraph (2) would apply to P.\n(6) In sub-paragraph (1), “relevant payment category” means—\n(a) where P is registered under the England Infected Blood Support Scheme, Hepatitis C stage 1 and SCM;\n(b) where P is registered under the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme, Chronic HCV (severely affected by their Hepatitis C infection);\n(c) where P is registered under the Infected Blood Payment Scheme for Northern Ireland, Hepatitis C stage 1 (enhanced);\n(d) where P is registered under the Wales Infected Blood Support Scheme, Hepatitis C stage 1 + enhanced support.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 8 inserted (24.7.2026) by The Infected Blood Compensation Scheme (Amendment) Regulations 2026 (S.I. 2026/872), regs. 1(2), 7(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/404/schedule/2/paragraph/8",
    "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."
}