{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-amendment-regulations-2013/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/455",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) (Amendment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-amendment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013",
  "text": "In regulation 4 of the Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013—\n(a) after paragraph (2) insert the following paragraph—\n“(2A) Where C’s ability to carry out an activity is assessed, C is to be assessed as satisfying a descriptor only if C can do so—\n(a) safely;\n(b) to an acceptable standard;\n(c) repeatedly; and\n(d) within a reasonable time period.”; and\n(b) after paragraph (3) insert the following paragraph—\n“(4) In this regulation—\n(a) “safely” means in a manner unlikely to cause harm to C or to another person, either during or after completion of the activity;\n(b) “repeatedly” means as often as the activity being assessed is reasonably required to be completed; and\n(c) “reasonable time period” means no more than twice as long as the maximum period that a person without a physical or mental condition which limits that person’s ability to carry out the activity in question would normally take to complete that activity.”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/377."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/455/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:02:41.449405+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."
}