{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025/regulation-8",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2025/778",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-no-2-regulations-2025",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013",
  "text": "(1) The Universal Credit Regulations 2013 are amended as follows.\n(2) In regulation 76 (special schemes for compensation etc.)—\n(a) after paragraph (1C) insert—\n“(1D) This regulation also applies where a person—\n(a) receives a miscarriage of justice compensation payment or is a person for whose benefit such a payment is made;\n(b) is the partner of a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) refers, and receives a payment by or on behalf of that person which is derived from the miscarriage of justice compensation payment;\n(c) was the partner of a person to whom sub-paragraph (a) refers immediately before their death and receives a payment from their estate which is derived from a miscarriage of justice compensation payment;\n(d) in a case where a miscarriage of justice compensation payment is made to the personal representative of a deceased person (“P”), was P’s partner immediately before P’s death and receives a payment from P’s estate which is derived from the miscarriage of justice compensation payment.”;\n(b) in paragraph (4) after the definition of “the Horizon system” insert—\n““miscarriage of justice compensation payment” means—\n(a) a payment made under section 133(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 1988; or\n(b) any other payment made by the Secretary of State, the Scottish Ministers or, in Northern Ireland, the Department of Justice, for the purpose of compensating a person—\n(i) for a miscarriage of justice in criminal proceedings, or\n(ii) for being wrongfully charged with a criminal offence;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376, amended by S.I. 2023/640; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2025/778/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:14:09.018696+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."
}