PART 2 Disability assistance: England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

Disability assistance: miscellaneous amendments

Amendment of the Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008

12.—(1) The Representation of the People (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2008(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 57(4)(b) (additional requirements for applications on grounds of blindness or other disability)(2)—

(a) at the end of paragraph (iv), omit “or”,

(b) at the end of paragraph (v), insert—

“or

(vi) the enhanced rate of the mobility component of disability assistance for working age people (payable in accordance with regulations made under section 31 of the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018),”.

(1)

S.I. 2008/1741; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 2010/278, S.I. 2013/436, S.I. 2013/3021 and S.R. 2016 No. 228.

(2)

A new paragraph 4(b) was substituted by S.I. 2010/278. It was amended by S.I. 2013/3021, S.R. 2016 No. 228 and S.I. 2021/1188.