{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-assistance-scottish-adult-disability-living-allowance-consequential-amendment-revocation-and-saving-provision-regulations-2024/regulation-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-assistance-scottish-adult-disability-living-allowance-consequential-amendment-revocation-and-saving-provision-regulations-2024/regulation-13.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2024/311",
  "legislation_title": "The Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) (Consequential Amendment, Revocation and Saving Provision) Regulations 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disability-assistance-scottish-adult-disability-living-allowance-consequential-amendment-revocation-and-saving-provision-regulations-2024",
  "path": "regulation/13",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007",
  "text": "In regulation 8(6) (additional requirements for applications for a proxy vote for a particular or indefinite period on grounds of blindness or other disability) of the Representation of the People (Absent Voting at Local Government Elections) (Scotland) Regulations 2007—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (b), after “effect in the application” insert “, or”,\n(b) after sub-paragraph (b) insert—\n“(c) the applicant is in receipt of the higher rate of the mobility component of Scottish adult disability living allowance (payable in accordance with regulation 8 of the Disability Assistance (Scottish Adult Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 2025, or short-term assistance (payable in accordance with Part 1 of schedule 1 (short-term assistance) of those Regulations) where the “earlier determination” referred to in paragraph 1(1)(a) of schedule 1 (entitlement to short-term assistance) of those Regulations awarded the higher rate of the mobility component of Scottish adult disability living allowance because of the disability specified in the application and makes a statement to that effect in the application”.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 13 in force at 21.3.2025, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2007/170, relevantly amended by S.S.I. 2021/73 and S.S.I. 2022/31."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2025/XXX."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2024/311/regulation/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:38:27.290413+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}