The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 No. 388

SCHEDULE U.K. PERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT: SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

PART 2 U.K. CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Amendment of the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004 U.K.

34.  In paragraph 23 of Schedule 2 (absent voting: additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a definite or indefinite period on grounds of blindness or other disability)(1) to the European Parliamentary Elections Regulations 2004(2)—

(a) omit “or” at the end of paragraph (6)(c); and

(b) after paragraph (6)(d)—

“; or

(e) the application states that the applicant is in receipt of the enhanced rate of the mobility component of personal independence payment (payable under section 79(2) of the Welfare Reform Act 2012) because of the disability specified in the application”.

Commencement Information

I1 Sch. para. 34 in force at 6.5.2013, see reg. 3

(1)

Schedule 2 was substituted by S.I. 2009/186. There are amendments to paragraph 23 which are not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

S.I. 2004/293.