{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-habitual-residence-past-presence-and-temporary-absence-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-habitual-residence-past-presence-and-temporary-absence-amendment-regulations-2025/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2025/884",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-habitual-residence-past-presence-and-temporary-absence-amendment-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 23A(1) (refugees and certain persons with leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom)—\n(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (g) omit “or”;\n(b) at the end of sub-paragraph (h) for “.” substitute “;”;\n(c) after sub-paragraph (h) insert—\n“(i) met conditions A to D.\nCondition A\nThe person was residing in a country or territory outside Great Britain immediately before His Majesty’s Government—\n(a) provided public information to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory, or\n(b) arranged the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territory.\nCondition B\nThe person has left that country or territory.\nCondition C\nThe person arrived in Great Britain in the first 26 weeks beginning on the day on which the public information is issued, or the evacuation is started.\nCondition D\nThe person—\n(a) has a right of abode in the United Kingdom within the meaning given in section 2 of the Immigration Act 1971,\n(b) does not require leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with section 3ZA of that Act,\n(c) has leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with immigration rules made under section 3(2) of that Act, or\n(d) has leave on a discretionary basis outside of rules made under section 3(2) of that Act; or\n(j) as part of a safe and legal humanitarian immigration route, leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom in accordance with immigration rules made under section 3(2) of the Immigration Act 1971 or leave on a discretionary basis outside of rules.”.\n(3) In regulation 23A, after paragraph (1A) insert—\n“(1B) Where paragraph (1)(i) applies, it will apply for 130 weeks beginning on the day on which the public information is issued, or the evacuation is started.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/377. Regulation 23A is inserted by S.I. 2017/1015. Relevant amendments are made by S.I. 2021/1034, 2022/344 and 990 and 2023/532 and 1144."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/884/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:00.565494+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."
}