Regulation 18B Time limits on absences where the claimant is treated as being in Great BritainF1
England and Wales
Where a person is temporarily absent from Great Britain in the circumstances specified in regulation 17(1), 18(1) or 18A(1), the total period of an absence where C is treated as present in F2Great Britain the relevant area will not exceed 26 weeks.
Annotations
Textual amendments
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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
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Words in reg. 18B 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(3) (with reg. 6)
Notes on the whole SI
Textual amendments
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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.