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3.—(1) Regulation 62 (additional requirements for applications on grounds of physical incapacity) of the Representation of the People (Scotland) Regulations 1986 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) For paragraph (4)(b) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph:—
“(b)the application states that the applicant is (under section 37ZC of the Social Security Act 1975(1) in receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component of a disability living allowance (payable under section 37ZA of that Act) because of the physical incapacity specified in the application in pursuance of paragraph (1) above.”.
(3) For paragraph (5) there shall be substituted the following paragraph:—
“(5) The fact that an applicant is registered with a local authority or local society for the blind shall be deemed sufficient evidence that he is eligible for an absent vote on the grounds set out in paragraph (b) of section 6(2) of the Act of 1985.”.
1975 c. 14; sections 37ZA and 37ZC were inserted by section 1(2) of the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c. 21).
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