The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 No. 177

PART 2 Amendments to legislation applying in relation to England and Wales and Scotland

Amendment of the Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012

12.—(1) The Child Support Maintenance Calculation Regulations 2012(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 64 (illness or disability of relevant other child)—

(a) in paragraph (2)(a)(i)—

(i) after “armed forces independence payment” for “or” substitute “,”;

(ii) after “personal independence payment”, insert “or adult disability payment”;

(b) at the end of paragraph (2)(a)(iii) omit “or”;

(c) after paragraph (2)(a)(iv) insert—

“or

(v) that person would receive adult disability payment but for regulation 28 (effect of admission to hospital on ongoing entitlement to Adult Disability Payment) of the Disability for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022, and remains part of the applicant’s family,”.

(d) after paragraph (2)(g) insert—

“(ga) “adult disability payment” means the daily living component of adult disability payment under regulation 5 of the Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022;”;

(e) in paragraph (3)(b)—

(i) after “armed forces independence payment” for “or” substitute “,”;

(ii) after “personal independence payment”, insert “or adult disability payment”.

(1)

S.I. 2012/2677, as amended by S.I. 2013/388, 591 and 2021/786. There are other amendments not relevant to this instrument.