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)).