18.—(1) Any payment made to the applicant or the applicant’s partner in consequence of any personal injury to the applicant or, as the case may be, the applicant’s partner.
(2) But sub-paragraph (1)—
(a)applies only for the period of 52 weeks beginning with the day on which the applicant first receives any payment in consequence of that personal injury;
(b)does not apply to any subsequent payment made to the applicant in consequence of that injury (whether it is made by the same person or another);
(c)ceases to apply to the payment or any part of the payment from the day on which the applicant no longer possesses it;
(d)does not apply to any payment from a trust where the funds of the trust are derived from a payment made in consequence of any personal injury to the applicant.
(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2)(c), the circumstances in which an applicant no longer possesses a payment or a part of it include where the applicant has used a payment or part of it to purchase an asset.
(4) References in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) to the applicant are to be construed as including references to the applicant’s partner (where applicable).