Regulation 18 Absence from Great Britain to receive medical treatmentI1

(1)

Where C is temporarily absent from Great Britain, C is treated as present in F1the relevant area for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) for the first 26 weeks of that absence, where—

(a)

C's absence is solely in connection with arrangements made for the medical treatment of C for a disease or bodily or mental disablement which commenced before C left Great Britain; and

(b)

the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1)(a) relate to medical treatment –

(i)

outside Great Britain;

(ii)

during the period whilst C is temporarily absent from Great Britain; and

(iii)

by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.

(2)

In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in reg. 18(1) substituted (6.11.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland Cross-border Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1089), regs. 1(2), 5(6) (with reg. 6)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 18 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) and S.I. 2013/358

Notes on the whole SI

Textual amendments

F1: 2012 c.5.
F2: See section 173(5)(a) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992 (c.5) (‘the 1992 Act’). The requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee does not apply where regulations are contained in a statutory instrument made before the end of the period of six months beginning with the coming into force of the enactment under which the regulations were made. Schedule 9, paragraph 26(a) to the Welfare Reform Act 2012 (c.5) (‘the Act’) inserted a reference to Part 4 of that Act into section 170(5) of the 1992 Act which has the effect of making that Part of the Act a ‘relevant enactment’ and therefore subject to the requirement to refer regulations to the Social Security Advisory Committee unless section 173(5) applies.