{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18C",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-18C.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/18C",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "18C",
  "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 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 Scottish Ministers are satisfied that it would be unreasonable to expect C to return, or to 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": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 18C, 18D inserted (S.) (18.3.2026) by The Social Security (Residence and Presence Requirements) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2026 (S.S.I. 2026/139), regs. 1(1), 5(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/18C",
    "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."
}