{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2017/69",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Independence Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-2017",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Personal Independence Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "text": "(1) Schedule 1 to the Personal Independence Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 (personal independence payment assessment) is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (4).\n(2) In Part 1 (interpretation)—\n(a) in the defined term “manage medication or therapy” omit “or therapy”;\n(b) in the definition of that term omit “or undertake therapy”;\n(c) after that definition insert—\n““manage therapy” means undertake therapy, where a failure to do so is likely to result in a deterioration in C's health;”;\n(d) in the defined term “monitor health”, for “monitor health” substitute “ monitor a health condition ”; and\n(e) in the definition of “therapy” at the end insert (as full-out words)—\n“but does not include taking or applying, or otherwise receiving or administering, medication (whether orally, topically or by any other means), or any action which, in C's case, falls within the definition of “monitor a health condition”;”.\n(3) In the table in Part 2 (daily living activities), in relation to activity 3 (managing therapy or monitoring a health condition), in descriptor b—\n(a) for “either” substitute “ any one or more of the following ”;\n(b) omit “or” at the end of paragraph (i);\n(c) in paragraph (ii) omit “or monitor a health condition”; and\n(d) after paragraph (ii) add—\n“(iii) supervision, prompting or assistance to be able to monitor a health condition.”.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 2(4) revoked (15.6.2018) by The Personal Independence Payment (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2018 (S.R. 2018/121), regs. 1, 3"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.R. 2016 No. 217"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2017/69/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:52:48.603518+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."
}