{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riot-compensation-regulations-2017/regulation-7",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riot-compensation-regulations-2017/regulation-7.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/371",
  "legislation_title": "The Riot Compensation Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/riot-compensation-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Details and evidence in support of a claim",
  "text": "(1) A section 1 claim must be supported by adequate details and adequate evidence of losses incurred.\n(2) If an ordinary claimant is entitled to claim or has claimed compensation against an insurance company, under a policy of insurance, for the damage, destruction or theft in the course of the riot of all or any of the property which is the subject of the ordinary claim, the ordinary claim must include—\n(a) adequate details of that policy, and\n(b) if the ordinary claimant has claimed compensation under that policy, adequate details of the claim and adequate evidence in support of it.\n(3) It is the duty of the Authority to determine whether adequate details and adequate evidence under paragraph (1) and (if applicable) paragraph (2) have been submitted.\n(4) The Authority may treat as lapsed (and accordingly refuse) a section 1 claim if, within the 91-day period determined in accordance with regulation 6, it considers that neither the claimant nor the representative (if any) has submitted to it adequate details of or adequate evidence in support of the claim..\n(5) The Authority may require any estimate of repair costs submitted as evidence of losses incurred to be prepared by contractors approved by it.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 7(2)(b) inserted (1.10.2018) by The Riot Compensation (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/982), regs. 1, 2(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 7 in force at 6.4.2017, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/371/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:13:06.089892+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."
}