{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-transitional-provisions-regulations-2013/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-transitional-provisions-regulations-2013/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/387",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-transitional-provisions-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Extension of certain fixed term period awards of disability living allowance for persons reaching 16",
  "text": "(1) Subject to regulation 18A, where there is an award of disability living allowance to a DLA entitled person and—\n(a) the award is of—\n(i) both components and the award in respect of either or both is for a fixed term period, or\n(ii) one component only and for a fixed term period,\n(b) the person reaches 16 after 27th October 2013, and\n(c) the fixed term period expires in the period starting with the day before the person reaches 16 and ending with the day before the person reaches 16 years and 6 months,\nthe fixed term period shall be extended.\n(2) A fixed term period extended under paragraph (1) shall expire on the day before the person reaches 17 or, where these Regulations have the effect that the person's entitlement to disability living allowance terminates on an earlier day, on that day.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (S.) (1.9.2020) by The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Amendment (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/218), regs. 1(1), 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18(1)(b) substituted (6.10.2013) by The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2231), regs. 1(2), 2(5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/387/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-05T03:41:24.842668+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."
}