The Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) (Amendment) (No.2) Regulations 2005

Amendment of Regulations

2.  In regulation 33 of the Road Vehicles (Registration and Licensing) Regulations 2002(1) Regulations (nil licences), after paragraph (8) there shall be inserted—

“(8A) Section 22ZA of the 1994 Act shall apply to information of the following descriptions—

(a) the name of any person to whom—

(i) disability living allowance or mobility supplement is payable; or

(ii) disability living allowance has ceased to be payable and who would be entitled to receive the mobility component at the higher rate but for his failure to satisfy a condition referred to in paragraph 19(2A)(b) of Schedule 2 to the 1994 Act;

(b) that person’s date of birth and National Insurance number; and

(c) if applicable, the date on which the allowance or supplement, as appropriate, will cease to be payable.

(8B) For the purposes of paragraph (8A)—

“disability living allowance” means a disability living allowance for the purposes of section 71 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992(2) (disability living allowance);

“mobility component” means the mobility component of a disability living allowance and “higher rate” means the higher rate of the mobility component for the time being prescribed under section 73 of that Act(3) (the mobility component); and

“mobility supplement” has the meaning which that expression bears in paragraph 19 of Schedule 2 to the 1994 Act.”.

(1)

S.I. 2002/2742, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.

(2)

1992 c. 4; section 71 was amended by section 67(1) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 (c. 30).

(3)

Section 73 was amended by section 67(3) of the Welfare Reform and Pensions Act 1999 and the rates of the mobility component are prescribed by S.I. 1991/2890; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1993/1939, 2005/522.