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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-wales-regulations-2000/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2000/1786",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Wales) Regulations 2000",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-persons-badges-for-motor-vehicles-wales-regulations-2000",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Descriptions of disabled persons",
  "text": "(1) The prescribed descriptions of a disabled person to whom a local authority may issue a disabled person’s badge are a person who is more than two years old who fits one or more of the descriptions specified in paragraph (2).\n(2) The descriptions are a person who —\n(a) receives a higher rate of the mobility component of the disability living allowance in accordance with section 73 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 ;\n(b) uses a motor vehicle supplied by the Department of Social Security or the Scottish Executive or is in receipt of a grant pursuant to section 5(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977 or section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 ;\n(c) is registered as blind under section 29(4)(g) of the National Assistance Act 1948 or, in Scotland, is a blind person within the meaning of section 64(1) of that Act;\n(d) receives a mobility supplement under article 26A of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 including such a supplement by virtue of any scheme or order under article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 ;\n(e) drives motor vehicles regularly, has a severe disability in both upper limbs and is unable to turn by hand the steering wheel of a motor vehicle even if that wheel is fitted with a turning knob; or\n(f) has a permanent and substantial disability which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 4 in force at 1.7.2000, see reg. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 4."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1977 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1978 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "1948 c. 29."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/883, as amended by S.I. 1983/1116 and 1121, 1984/1154 and 1687, 1985/1201, 1986/592, 1988/248 and 2248, 1989/156, 1990/250 and 1308, 1991/766, 1992/710 and 3208, 1993/598, 1994/772 and 1906, 1995/766, 1996/732, 1638 and 2282, and 1997/286."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/686, amended by S.I. 1983/1164 and 1540, 1984/1289 and 1675, 1985/1313, 1986/628, 1987/191, 1988/367 and 2260, 1989/415, 1990/535 and 1300, 1991/708, 1992/702 and 3226, 1993/480, 1994/715 and 2021, 1996/445 and 502, 1997/812, and 1998/278."
    }
  ],
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