Explanatory note

These Regulations amend regulation 3 of the Mobility Allowance Regulations 1975 to provide that a person who, by reason of the combined effects of being blind and deaf, is unable without the guidance of another person to walk to an intended or required destination while out of doors is to be treated as suffering from physical disablement such that he is unable or virtually unable to walk for the purposes of section 37A of the Social Security Act 1975.