Regulation 18 Absence from Northern Ireland to receive medical treatment
(1)
Where C is temporarily absent from Northern Ireland, C is treated as present in Northern Ireland for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) for the first 26 weeks of that absence, where—
(a)
C’s absence is solely in connection with arrangements made for the medical treatment of C for a disease or bodily or mental disablement which commenced before C left Northern Ireland; and
(b)
the arrangements referred to in sub-paragraph (a) relate to medical treatment—
(i)
outside Northern Ireland,
(ii)
during the period whilst C is temporarily absent from Northern Ireland, and
(iii)
by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.
(2)
In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).