{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-43",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-general-benefit-regulations-1982/regulation-43.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/43",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "43",
  "heading": "Payments in respect of the need of constant attendance and in respect of exceptionally severe disablement for persons entitled to Workmen's Compensation",
  "text": "(1) A person who—\n(a) is or has been on or after 5 July 1948 entitled in respect of any injury or disease to weekly payments by way of compensation under the Workmen's Compensation Acts or under any contracting-out scheme duly certified thereunder; and\n(b) as the result of that injury or disease—\n(i) is subject to disabilities which are such that if they had resulted from an accident against which he had been insured under the Act the extent of the resulting disablement would be assessed at 100 per cent, and\n(ii) requires constant attendance,\nshall have the like right to payments in respect of the need of such constant attendance and in respect of exceptionally severe disablement under section 63 as if the said injury or disease were one in respect of which a disablement pension were for the time being payable in respect of an assessment of 100 per cent.\n(2) References in this regulation to an injury or disease in respect of which a person is or has been entitled as aforesaid to weekly payments by way of compensation shall be construed as including every such injury or disease in respect of which he is so entitled, and references in this regulation to the disabilities resulting from an injury or disease and the extent of the resulting disablement shall be construed accordingly.",
  "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/43",
    "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."
}