70 Payments in respect of applicants for exempting from wearing seat belts.E+W+S
(1)The Secretary of State may make payments out of money provided by Parliament in respect of the examination of applicants falling within any class mentioned in subsection (2) below, being applicants for medical certificates required as a condition of any exception prescribed by regulations under section 33A or 33B of the 1972 Act (wearing of seat belts).
(2)The classes referred to in subsection (1) above are—
(a)those in receipt of—
(i)attendance allowance under section 35 of the M1Social Security Act 1975;
(ii)mobility allowance under section 37A of that Act;
(iii)disablement pension under section 57 of that Act at a weekly rate increased by virtue of section 61(1) of that Act (constant attendance needed); or
(iv)an allowance under article 14 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order M21978 (constant attendance allowance);
[F1(v)mobility supplement under a scheme made under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939 or under an Order in Council made under section 12 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (war pensioners mobility supplement); or
(vi)a disability pension paid by the Secretary of State for Defence on account of disability attributable to injury sustained after 30th September 1921 but before 3rd September 1939 together with a mobility supplement paid under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Disablement Awards) (No. 2) Order 1984 or under Royal Warrant dated 30th December 1949 or under Queen’s Regulations for the Royal Air Force.]
(b)those in receipt [F2of income support or family credit and] their dependants;
(c)those provided with invalid carriages or other vehicles under subsection (1) of section 46 of the M3National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or in receipt of grants under subsection (3) of that section in respect of invalid carriages or other vehicles which belong to them; and
(d)those whose names are in the register of disabled persons maintained under section 6 of the M4Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944.
(3)The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (2) above (whether as originally enacted or as previously amended under this subsection) so as to omit any of the classes mentioned in that subsection or add to or substitute for any of those classes other classes of any description.
Textual Amendments
F1S. 70(2)(a)(v)(vi) added by S.I. 1984/1996, art. 2
F2Words substituted by Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50, SIF 113:1), s. 86(1), Sch. 10 para. 57
Marginal Citations