{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/schedule-3B/paragraph-2A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999/schedule-3B/paragraph-2A.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1999/991",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security and Child Support (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-and-child-support-decisions-and-appeals-regulations-1999",
  "path": "schedule/3B/paragraph/2A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "A period specified for the purposes of paragraph 2 is a period when the claimant or the claimant’s partner is maintained free of charge while undergoing medical or other treatment as an in-patient in—\n(a) a hospital or similar institution under—\n(i) the National Health Service 2006;\n(ii) the National Health Service (Wales) Act 2006; or\n(iii) the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978; or\n(b) a hospital or similar institution maintained or administered by the Defence Council.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3B inserted (7.4.2003) by State Pension Credit (Consequential, Transitional and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2002 (S.I. 2002/3019), regs. 1(2)(a), 22"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 3B para. 2A inserted (2.4.2013) by The Social Security (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/443), regs. 1, 5(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1999/991/schedule/3B/paragraph/2A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T10:52:23.255868+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."
}