The Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance (Consequential Provisions) Regulations 1991

Amendment of the Overlapping Benefits Regulations

5.—(1) The Overlapping Benefits Regulations shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.

(2) In sub-paragraph (2)(g) of regulation 4 (adjustment of personal benefit under chapters I and II of Part II of the Act where other personal benefit under those chapters is payable) for the words “mobility allowance” there shall be substituted the words “disability living allowance”.

(3) In paragraph (3) of regulation 6 (adjustments of personal benefit under chapters I and II of Part II of the Act by reference to industrial injuries benefits and benefits not under the Act, and adjustments of industrial injuries benefits)–

(a) after the words “attendance allowance” there shall be inserted the words “, or the care component of disability living allowance”;

(b) for the words “by reference to which it” there shall be substituted the words “by reference to which that allowance (as the case may be)”.

(4) In paragraph 5 of Column (1) of Schedule 1 (personal benefits which are required to be adjusted by reference to benefits not under chapters I and II of Part II of the Act) after the words “Attendance allowance” there shall be added the words “, or the care component of disability living allowance”.