# The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013, Regulation 18A: 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

Extent: E+W

(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—
(a) C was present in a country or territory outside Great Britain immediately before His Majesty’s Government—
(i) provided public information to advise British nationals to leave that country or territory, or
(ii) arranged the evacuation of British nationals from that country or territory;
(b) the Secretary of State is satisfied that it would be unreasonable to expect C to return, or have returned, to Great Britain; and
(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.
(2) In this regulation, “temporarily absent” has the same meaning as in regulation 17(2).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/18A (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18A
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