Descriptions of disabled persons5
1
Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.
2
For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—
1
The prescribed descriptions of disabled person to whom a disabled person’s badge may be issued are—
a
a person who is more than 2 years old and falls within one or more of the descriptions specified in paragraph (2);
b
a person who is not more than 2 years old and falls within either or both of the descriptions specified in paragraph (3).
3
In paragraph (2)—
a
after “descriptions” there shall be inserted “referred to in paragraph (1)(a)”;
b
in subparagraph (b)—
i
the words “uses a motor vehicle supplied by the Department of Social Security or the Scottish Executive or” shall be omitted; and
ii
for “section 5(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977” there shall be substituted “paragraph 10(3) of Schedule 1 to the National Health Service Act 2006”;
c
for subparagraph (e) there shall be substituted—
e
drives a vehicle regularly, has a severe disability in both arms and is unable to operate, or has considerable difficulty in operating, all or some types of parking meter;
4
After paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraphs—
3
The descriptions referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are—
a
a child who, on account of a condition, must always be accompanied by bulky medical equipment which cannot be carried around with the child without great difficulty;
b
a child who, on account of a condition, must always be kept near a motor vehicle so that, if necessary, treatment for that condition can be given in the vehicle or the child can be taken quickly in the vehicle to a place where such treatment can be given.
4
In this regulation—
a
“bulky medical equipment” includes in particular any of the following—
i
ventilators;
ii
suction machines;
iii
feed pumps;
iv
parenteral equipment;
v
syringe drivers;
vi
oxygen administration equipment;
vii
continual oxygen saturation monitoring equipment; and
viii
casts and associated medical equipment for the correction of hip dysplasia; and
b
“parking meter” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 19844 (see sections 46(2)(a) and 142(1)).