{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18A.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/18A",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18A",
  "heading": "Absence where His Majesty’s Government provides public information to advise British nationals to leave a country or territory or arranges the evacuation of British nationals from a country or territory",
  "text": "(1) Where C is temporarily absent from Great Britain, C is treated as present in Great Britain the relevant area for the purposes of regulation 16(a) and (b) during the first 26 weeks of that absence, where—\n(a) C was present in a country or territory outside Great Britain immediately before His Majesty’s Government—\n(i) provided public information to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory, or\n(ii) arranged the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territory;\n(b) the Secretary of State is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to expect C to return, or have returned, to Great Britain; and\n(c) C did not enter that country or territory when His Majesty’s Government’s public information was to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory.\n(2) In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 18A, 18B inserted (E.W.) (18.7.2025) by The Social Security (Habitual Residence, Past Presence and Temporary Absence) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/884), regs. 1(1), 15"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 18A(1) substituted (E.W.) (6.11.2025) by The Social Security (Scotland Cross-border Consequential Amendment and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2025 (S.I. 2025/1089), regs. 1(2), 10(2) (with reg. 6)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/18A",
    "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."
}