3U.K.A person certified to be registered as a blind person—
(a)[F1by a local authority, as defined for the purposes of Part III of the M1National Assistance Act 1948, under arrangements made by the authority under section 29 of that Act;]
(b)by a Health and Social Services Board in Northern Ireland under arrangements made under Article 15(1) of the M2Health and Personal Social Services (Northern Ireland) Order 1972.
Textual Amendments
F1Sch. 2 para. 3(a) omitted (E.W.) (6.4.2016) by virtue of The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/413), regs. 2(1), 32(b)
Marginal Citations