{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017/schedule-3/paragraph-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/725",
  "legislation_title": "The Loans for Mortgage Interest Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/loans-for-mortgage-interest-regulations-2017",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/18",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Temporary absence exceeding 6 months",
  "text": "(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), a claimant is to be treated as no longer occupying accommodation from which the claimant is temporarily absent where the absence exceeds, or is expected to exceed, 6 months.\n(2) Where a claimant who falls within paragraph 15 is temporarily absent from the relevant accommodation, the claimant is to be treated as no longer occupying that accommodation where the absence exceeds, or is expected to exceed, 12 months.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3 para. 18(2) substituted (6.4.2018) by The Loans for Mortgage Interest and Social Fund Maternity Grant (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/307), regs. 1(2), 2(16)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/725/schedule/3/paragraph/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:09:51.368421+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."
}