SCHEDULEPERSONAL INDEPENDENCE PAYMENT: SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS AND CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

PART 2CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS

Amendment of the Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 200023

1

The Social Security (Immigration and Asylum) Consequential Amendments Regulations 200084 are amended as follows.

2

In regulation 1 (citation, commencement and interpretation), in paragraph (3)85, in the appropriate place insert—

  • “personal independence payment” means personal independence payment under Part 4 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012;

3

In regulation 2 (persons not excluded from specified benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)—

a

in paragraph (2)86 after “Contributions and Benefits Act” insert “or personal independence payment”; and

b

in paragraph (3) after “Contributions and Benefits Act” insert “or personal independence payment”.

4

In the heading to Part II of the Schedule (persons not excluded from certain benefits under section 115 of the Immigration and Asylum Act 1999)87 after “disability living allowance,” insert “personal independence payment,”.