{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-late-appeals-regulations-2001/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-late-appeals-regulations-2001/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2001/1032",
  "legislation_title": "The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Late Appeals) Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/pensions-appeal-tribunals-late-appeals-regulations-2001",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Prescribed circumstances",
  "text": "The prescribed circumstances are as follows:\n(a) where the main cause of non-compliance with the time limit was—\n(i) the death or serious illness of the claimant or a spouse or dependant of the claimant;\n(ii) the disruption of normal postal services;\n(iii) failure on the part of the Secretary of State to notify the claimant of the decision; or\n(iv) exceptional circumstances applying to the claimant which rendered it impracticable for the claimant to bring the appeal or to instruct another person to bring it;\nand\n(b) the appeal was in any event brought as soon as was reasonably practicable in the circumstances of the case.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 revoked (S.N.I.) (3.4.2023) by The Pensions Appeal Tribunals (Late Appeal) (Amendment) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/347), regs. 1(2), 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 9.4.2001, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2001/1032/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T07:54:20.490726+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."
}