The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022

Amendment of the Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013

17.—(1) The Universal Credit, Personal Independence Payment, Jobseeker’s Allowance and Employment and Support Allowance (Decisions and Appeals) Regulations 2013(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) omit the definition of “child disability payment”;

(b) after the definition of “the Rent Officers Order 2013” insert—

““Scottish disability benefit” means, as the context requires, either of the following benefits—

(a)

adult disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022; and

(b)

child disability payment within the meaning given in regulation 2 of the Disability Assistance for Children and Young People (Scotland) Regulations 2021;”.

(3) In regulation 12(b) (award of another benefit), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability benefit”.

(4) In paragraph 31 of Schedule 1 (effective dates for superseding decisions made on the ground of a change of circumstances), in sub-paragraphs (1), (2)(a)(i), (2)(a)(ii) and (2)(a)(iii), for each occurrence of “child disability payment” substitute “Scottish disability payment”.

(1)

S.I. 2013/381, as amended by S.I. 2021/786. There are other amendments not relevant to this instrument.