{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-transitional-provisions-regulations-2013/regulation-8",
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  "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/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Making a claim for personal independence payment following notification",
  "text": "(1) In this regulation and regulation 9 “the claim period” means the period of 28 days referred to in regulation 7(b).\n(2) For the purposes of this regulation a claim, whether or not it is defective as mentioned in paragraph (3) or (4) of regulation 11 (making a claim for personal independence payment) of the Claims and Payments Regulations, must be made in accordance with and by a means set out in paragraph (1)(a), (b) or (c) of that regulation.\n(3) Such a claim is made—\n(a) in the case of a claim made in writing, other than by means of an electronic communication, on a form authorised by the Secretary of State, on the day on which it is delivered to or received at the appropriate office,\n(b) in the case of a claim in writing made by means of an electronic communication in accordance with the provisions set out in Part 2 of Schedule 2 to the Claims and Payments Regulations, on the day on which it is received at the appropriate office, and\n(c) in the case of a claim made by telephone, on the day on which the telephone call takes place.\n(4) Neither paragraph (6) of regulation 11 of the Claims and Payments Regulations nor paragraph (2) of regulation 12 (date of claim for personal independence payment) of those Regulations shall apply in relation to a claim made by a notified person but—\n(a) in a case where the claim is defective as mentioned in paragraph (3) or (4) of the said regulation 11, the Secretary of State must extend the claim period by a period of 28 days, or such longer period as the Secretary of State thinks fit, starting with the day following the last day of the claim period, and\n(b) in any other case the Secretary of State may extend the claim period by such further period as the Secretary of State thinks fit.\n(5) The duty in paragraph (4)(a) and power in paragraph (4)(b) to extend the claim period may be exercised before the claim period would otherwise have expired or after it has expired.\n(6) The Secretary of State may further extend a claim period extended under paragraph (4) either before the extended period would have expired or after it has expired.\n(7) Where the claim period has been extended under paragraph (4), the Secretary of State must treat the claim as properly made if a claim is made—\n(a) before the end of the period by which the claim period was extended or further extended, and\n(b) in accordance with any instructions of the Secretary of State as to the way in which the claim is to be completed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/387/regulation/8",
    "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."
}