The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007

Descriptions of disabled persons

5.—(1) Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—

“(1) The prescribed descriptions of disabled person to whom a disabled person’s badge may be issued are—

(a) a person who is more than 2 years old and falls within one or more of the descriptions specified in paragraph (2);

(b) a person who is not more than 2 years old and falls within either or both of the descriptions specified in paragraph (3).”

(3) In paragraph (2)—

(a) after “descriptions” there shall be inserted “referred to in paragraph (1)(a)”;

(b) in subparagraph (b)—

(i) the words “uses a motor vehicle supplied by the Department of Social Security or the Scottish Executive or” shall be omitted; and

(ii) for “section 5(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977” there shall be substituted “paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 2006”;

(c) for subparagraph (e) there shall be substituted—

“(e) drives a vehicle regularly, has a severe disability in both arms and is unable to operate, or has considerable difficulty in operating, all or some types of parking meter;”.

(4) After paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraphs—

“(3) The descriptions referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are—

(a) a child who, on account of a condition, must always be accompanied by bulky medical equipment which cannot be carried around with the child without great difficulty;

(b) a child who, on account of a condition, must always be kept near a motor vehicle so that, if necessary, treatment for that condition can be given in the vehicle or the child can be taken quickly in the vehicle to a place where such treatment can be given.

(4) In this regulation—

(a) “bulky medical equipment” includes in particular any of the following—

(i) ventilators;

(ii) suction machines;

(iii) feed pumps;

(iv) parenteral equipment;

(v) syringe drivers;

(vi) oxygen administration equipment;

(vii) continual oxygen saturation monitoring equipment; and

(viii) casts and associated medical equipment for the correction of hip dysplasia; and

(b) “parking meter” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984(1) (see sections 46(2)(a) and 142(1)).”

(1)

1984 c. 27; section 46(2)(a) was amended by S.I. 1996/1553.