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14.—(1) Subject to sub-paragraph (2), the amount of any trust payment made to an applicant or any partner of the applicant who is—
(a)a diagnosed person;
(b)a diagnosed person’s partner or was a diagnosed person’s partner at the time of the diagnosed person’s death; or
(c)a parent of a diagnosed person, a person acting in place of a diagnosed person’s parents or a person who was acting in place of a diagnosed person’s parents at the date of the diagnosed person’s death.
(2) Where a trust payment is made to—
(a)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(a) or (b), sub-paragraph (1) applies for the period beginning on the date on which the trust payment is made and ending on the date on which that person dies; or
(b)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (1)(c), that paragraph (1) applies for the period beginning on the date on which the trust payment is made and ending 2 years after that date.
(3) Subject to sub-paragraph (4), the amount of any payment by a person to whom a trust payment has been made or of any payment out of the estate of a person to whom a trust payment has been made, which is made to an applicant or an applicant’s partner who is—
(a)a diagnosed person;
(b)a diagnosed person’s partner or was a diagnosed person’s partner at the date of the diagnosed person’s death; or
(c)a parent of a diagnosed person, a person acting in place of a diagnosed person’s parents or a person who was acting in place of a diagnosed person’s parents at the date of the diagnosed person’s death.
(4) Where a payment referred to in sub-paragraph (3) is made to—
(a)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(a) or (b), sub-paragraph (3) applies for the period beginning on the date on which the payment is made and ending on the date on which that person dies; or
(b)a person referred to in sub-paragraph (3)(c), sub-paragraph (3) applies for the period beginning on the date on which the payment is made and ending 2 years after that date.
(5) In this paragraph a reference to a person—
(a)being a diagnosed person’s partner; or
(b)acting in place of a diagnosed person’s parents,
at the date of the diagnosed person’s death includes a person who would have been a diagnosed person’s partner or a person acting in place of a diagnosed person’s parents but for the diagnosed person residing in a care home or an independent hospital.
(6) In this paragraph—
“diagnosed person” means a person who has been diagnosed as suffering from, or who after death has been diagnosed as having suffered from, variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; and
“trust payment” means a payment under a trust established out of funds provided by the Secretary of State in respect of persons who suffered, or who are suffering, from variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease for the benefit of persons eligible for payments in accordance with its provisions.
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