The Universal Credit Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 216

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 8 N.I. Circumstances in which a claimant is to be treated as having limited capability for work

Life threatening disease N.I.

5.  The claimant is suffering from a life threatening disease in relation to which— N.I.

(a) there is medical evidence that the disease is uncontrollable, or uncontrolled, by a recognised therapeutic procedure, and

(b) in the case of a disease that is uncontrolled, there is a reasonable cause for it not to be controlled by a recognised therapeutic procedure.