{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1982/1408",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (General Benefit) Regulations 1982",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Increase of disablement pension for constant attendance",
  "text": "The amount by which the weekly rate of disablement pension may be increased under section 61 where constant attendance is required by a beneficiary as a result of the relevant loss of faculty shall—\n(a) where the beneficiary (not being a case to which paragraph (b) of this regulation relates) is to a substantial extent dependent on such attendance for the necessities of life and is likely to remain so dependent for a prolonged period, be the amount specified in paragraph 7(a) of Part V of Schedule 4 to the Act (unless the attendance so required is part-time only, in which case the amount shall be such sum as may be reasonable in the circumstances) or, where the extent of such attendance is greater by reason of the beneficiary's exceptionally severe disablement, a sum not exceeding one and a half times the amount specified in paragraph 7(a) of Part V of the said Schedule, a fraction of five pence being for this purpose treated as five pence;\n(b) where the beneficiary is so exceptionally severely disabled as to be entirely, or almost entirely, dependent on such attendance for the necessities of life, and is likely to remain so dependent for a prolonged period and the attendance so required is whole-time, be the amount specified in paragraph 7(b) of Part V of Schedule 4 to the Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1982/1408/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T18:13:46.544892+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."
}