{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-england-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-england-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2007/2531",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-england-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Descriptions of disabled persons",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 4 shall be amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (1) there shall be substituted—\n“(1) The prescribed descriptions of disabled person to whom a disabled person’s badge may be issued are—\n(a) a person who is more than 2 years old and falls within one or more of the descriptions specified in paragraph (2);\n(b) a person who is not more than 2 years old and falls within either or both of the descriptions specified in paragraph (3).”\n(3) In paragraph (2)—\n(a) after “descriptions” there shall be inserted “referred to in paragraph (1)(a)”;\n(b) in subparagraph (b)—\n(i) the words “uses a motor vehicle supplied by the Department of Social Security or the Scottish Executive or” shall be omitted; and\n(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”;\n(c) for subparagraph (e) there shall be substituted—\n“(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;”.\n(4) After paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraphs—\n“(3) The descriptions referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are—\n(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;\n(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.\n(4) In this regulation—\n(a) “bulky medical equipment” includes in particular any of the following—\n(i) ventilators;\n(ii) suction machines;\n(iii) feed pumps;\n(iv) parenteral equipment;\n(v) syringe drivers;\n(vi) oxygen administration equipment;\n(vii) continual oxygen saturation monitoring equipment; and\n(viii) casts and associated medical equipment for the correction of hip dysplasia; and\n(b) “parking meter” has the same meaning as in the Road Traffic Regulation Act 1984 (see sections 46(2)(a) and 142(1)).”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1984 c. 27; section 46(2)(a) was amended by S.I. 1996/1553."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2007/2531/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T03:44:35.765114+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."
}