5.—(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 1984(1) (see sections 46(2)(a) and 142(1)).”
1984 c. 27; section 46(2)(a) was amended by S.I. 1996/1553.