{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-infected-blood-and-thalidomide-regulations-2017/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-infected-blood-and-thalidomide-regulations-2017/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2017/870",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Infected Blood and Thalidomide) Regulations 2017",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-infected-blood-and-thalidomide-regulations-2017",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Regulations 1997",
  "text": "In regulation 2(2) of the Social Security (Recovery of Benefits) Regulations 1997 (exempted trusts and payments), after sub-paragraph (n) add—\n“(o) any payment made from a scheme established or approved by the Secretary of State, or trust established with funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the purpose of providing compensation in respect of a person having been infected from contaminated blood products;\n(p) any payment made under or by a trust, established for the purpose of giving relief and assistance to disabled persons whose disabilities were caused by the fact that during their mother’s pregnancy she had taken a preparation containing the drug known as Thalidomide, and which is approved by the Secretary of State.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/2205. Sub-paragraph (n) was inserted by S.I. 2017/329."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2017/870/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:08:31.817521+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."
}