{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/377",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/18",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18",
  "heading": "Absence from Great Britain to receive medical treatment",
  "text": "(1) Where C is temporarily absent from Great Britain, C is treated as present in the relevant area for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) for the first 26 weeks of that absence, where—\n(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\n(b) the arrangements referred to in paragraph (1)(a) relate to medical treatment –\n(i) outside Great Britain;\n(ii) during the period whilst C is temporarily absent from Great Britain; and\n(iii) by, or under the supervision of, a person appropriately qualified to carry out that treatment.\n(2) In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 18 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) and S.I. 2013/358"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/18",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:38.365890+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."
}