{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2007/162",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2007",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-scotland-amendment-regulations-2007",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Descriptions of disabled persons",
  "text": "(1) Regulation 4 is amended as follows.\n(2) For paragraph (1) substitute–\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” insert “referred to in paragraph (1)(a)”;\n(b) in sub paragraph (b) for “uses a motor vehicle supplied by the Scottish Executive or the Department of Social Security or is in receipt of a grant pursuant to section 5(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977 or” substitute “is in receipt of a grant pursuant to”; and\n(c) for sub-paragraphs (e) and (f) substitute–\n“(e) drives a vehicle regularly, has a severe congenital disability in both arms and is unable to operate, or has considerable difficulty in operating, all or some types of parking meter;\n(f) is unable to walk or has considerable difficulty in walking by reason of a permanent and substantial disability; or\n(g) is unable to walk or has considerable difficulty in walking by reason of a temporary but substantial disability which is likely to last for a period of at least 12 months beginning with the date on which the badge is issued.”.\n(4) After paragraph (2) insert–\n“(3) The descriptions referred to in paragraph (1)(b) are–\n(a) a child who has a medical condition that requires that he be always accompanied by bulky medical equipment which can be kept in a motor vehicle but which cannot be carried around with the child without great difficulty;\n(b) a child who has a medical condition that requires that he must always be kept near a motor vehicle so that he can if necessary be treated for that condition in the vehicle or taken quickly in the vehicle to a place where he can be so treated.\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; and\n(vii) continual oxygen saturation monitoring equipment; 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. 28; 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/ssi/2007/162/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:14:39.570904+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."
}