{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "nisr/2016/217",
  "legislation_title": "The Personal Independence Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Claim for personal independence payment after an interval and after reaching the relevant age",
  "text": "(1) Where C has reached the relevant age and makes a new claim in the circumstances set out in regulation 15 the following exceptions apply.\n(2) The exceptions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) Article 88(1) does not apply;\n(b) the reference to “2 years” in regulation 15(1)(b) is to be read as “one year”;\n(c) where C is assessed as having severely limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim—\n(i) C is entitled to the enhanced rate of the mobility component only if C was entitled to that rate of that component under the previous award of personal independence payment or adult disability payment, and\n(ii) where C is not entitled to the enhanced rate of that component because of head (i), C is entitled to the standard rate of that component provided that C was entitled to that rate of that component under the previous award of personal independence payment or adult disability payment; and\n(d) where C is assessed as having limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim, C is entitled to the standard rate of the mobility component only if C was entitled to that component, at either rate, under the previous award of personal independence payment or adult disability payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(2)(c)(i)(ii) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 30(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(2)(d) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 30(7)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/217/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:56:25.610413+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."
}