{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-employment-and-support-allowance-terminal-illness-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-employment-and-support-allowance-terminal-illness-amendment-regulations-2022/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2022/260",
  "legislation_title": "The Universal Credit and Employment and Support Allowance (Terminal Illness) (Amendment) Regulations 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/universal-credit-and-employment-and-support-allowance-terminal-illness-amendment-regulations-2022",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Amendments of the definition of when a person is “terminally ill”",
  "text": "(1) In the definition of “terminally ill” in regulation 2(1) of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2008, for “6 months” substitute “12 months”.\n(2) In the definition of “terminally ill” in regulation 2 of the Universal Credit Regulations 2013, for “6 months” substitute “12 months”.\n(3) In the definition of “terminally ill” in regulation 2 of the Employment and Support Allowance Regulations 2013, for “six months” substitute “12 months”.\n(4) For the definition of “terminally ill” in regulation 2 of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013 substitute—\n““terminally ill” in relation to a claimant, means that the claimant is suffering from a progressive disease and that death in consequence of that disease can reasonably be expected—\n(a) within 12 months in the case of universal credit or an employment and support allowance;\n(b) within 6 months in any other case;”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 2008/794."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/376."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/379."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "S.I. 2013/381."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2022/260/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:03:00.277791+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."
}