The Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Consequential and Miscellaneous Amendment and Transitional Provision) (Scotland) Regulations 2022

Amendment of the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007

12.  In regulation 8(6) (additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a particular or indefinite period on grounds of blindness or other disability) of the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007(1)—

(a) at the end of sub-paragraph (aa) omit “or”,

(b) after sub-paragraph (aa) insert—

“(ab) the applicant is in receipt of the enhanced rate of the mobility component of adult disability payment (payable in accordance with regulation 6 (mobility component) of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022(2)), or short-term assistance (payable in accordance with Part 1 of schedule 2 (short-term assistance) of those Regulations) where the “earlier determination” referred to in paragraph 1(1)(a) of that schedule awarded the enhanced rate of the mobility component of adult disability payment because of the disability specified in the application and makes a statement to that effect in the application, or”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2007/170, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2021/73.

(2)

S.S.I. 2022/54.