# The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013, Regulation 2: Interpretation


In these Regulations —
“the 1998 Act” means the Social Security Act 1998;
“the Act” means the Welfare Reform Act 2012;
“aid or appliance”-
(a) means any device which improves, provides or replaces C’s impaired physical or mental function; and
(b) includes a prosthesis;
“assessment” means the assessment referred to in regulation 4;
“C” means a person who has made a claim for or, as the case may be, is entitled to personal independence payment;
“component” means the daily living component or, as the case may be, the mobility component of personal independence payment;
“descriptor” means a descriptor in column 2 of the tables in Parts 2 and 3 of Schedule 1;
“disability living allowance” means disability living allowance under section 71 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
“medical treatment” means medical, surgical or rehabilitative treatment (including any course or diet or other regimen), and references to a person receiving or submitting to medical treatment are to be construed accordingly;
“prescribed date” means the date prescribed by regulation 14 or 15;
“previous award” means an award of either or both components to which C has ceased to be entitled;
“revised” means revised under section 9 of the 1998 Act, and “revision” is to be construed accordingly;
“superseded” means superseded under section 10 of the 1998 Act, and “supersession” is to be construed accordingly; and
terms defined for the purposes of a provision of Part 4 of the Act have the same meaning in these Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2013/9780111532072/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/draft-social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-2
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