Paragraph 2

Not yet in force

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. 7 para. 9A inserted by Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 s. 4(7)
sch. 7 para. 12(b)(i) words in sch. 7 para. 12(b) renumbered as sch. 7 para. 12(b)(i) by Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 s. 14(4)(a)(i)
sch. 7 para. 12(b)(ii) inserted by Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 s. 14(4)(a)(ii)
sch. 7 para. 13(3) words inserted by Social Security (Amendment) (Scotland) Act 2025 s. 14(4)(b)

(1)

The regulations may be framed so that, despite the criterion described in paragraph 1 not being fulfilled, an individual may nevertheless be eligible.

(2)

Where the regulations allow an individual to be eligible despite the criterion described in paragraph 1 not being fulfilled, they must be framed so that the individual's eligibility depends on the individual having, or having had, a relationship of a kind specified in the regulations to an individual who suffered a personal injury, or developed a disease, in the circumstances mentioned in paragraph 1.