{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2023/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2023/640",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Income and Capital Disregards) (Amendment) Regulations 2023",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-income-and-capital-disregards-amendment-regulations-2023",
  "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) omit paragraph (1)(a)(vi);\n(b) in paragraph (1A)—\n(i) omit sub-paragraph (c);\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (d) insert—\n“(e) the Post Office or the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing compensation or support which is—\n(i) in connection with the failings of the Horizon system; or\n(ii) otherwise payable following the judgment in Bates and Others v Post Office Ltd ((No. 3) “Common Issues”).”;\n(c) after paragraph (1A) insert—\n“(1B) This regulation also applies where a person receives a payment made for the purpose of providing compensation or support in respect of the fire on 14th June 2017 at Grenfell Tower.\n(1C) This regulation also applies where a person—\n(a) receives a vaccine damage payment or is a person for whose benefit a vaccine damage payment is made;\n(b) is the partner of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) and receives a payment by or on behalf of that person which is derived from a vaccine damage payment;\n(c) was the partner of a person referred to in sub-paragraph (a) immediately before the latter’s death and receives a payment from their estate which is derived from a vaccine damage payment;\n(d) in a case where a vaccine damage payment is made to the personal representative of a person who was severely disabled as a result of vaccination (“P”), was P’s partner immediately before P’s death and receives a payment from P’s estate which is derived from a vaccine damage payment.”;\n(d) after paragraph (3) insert—\n“(4) In this regulation—\n“the Horizon system” means any version of the computer system used by the Post Office known as Horizon, Horizon Legacy, Horizon Online or HNG-X;\n“the Post Office” means Post Office Limited (registered number 02154540);\n“vaccine damage payment” means a payment made under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376. Relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2020/618 and 2021/1405."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "[2019] EWHC 606 (QB)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "See regulation 2 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013 for the definition of “partner”."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2023/640/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:44:18.008254+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."
}