SCHEDULE 1SApplicable amount

PART 3SDisability premiums

Disabled child premiumS

9.  With regard to disabled child premium the condition referred to in paragraph 5 is that a child or young person for whom the applicant or applicant's partner is responsible and who is a member of the applicant's household—

(a)is in receipt of disability living allowance [F1, child disability payment] [F2, adult disability payment] or personal independence payment or is no longer in receipt of that allowance or payment because the child or young person is a patient, provided that the child or young person continues to be a member of the family;

(b)is blind within the meaning of paragraph 7(4) or treated as blind in accordance with paragraph 7(5); or

[F3(ba)is a young person who is in receipt of armed forces independence payment;]

(c)is a child or young person in respect of whom section 145A of the 1992 Act (entitlement after death of child or qualifying young person) applies for the purposes of entitlement to child benefit but only for the period prescribed under that section, and in respect of whom a disabled child premium was included in the applicant's applicable amount immediately before the death of that child or young person, or ceased to be included in the applicant's applicable amount because of that child or young person's death.

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