# The Personal Independence Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016, Regulation 26: Claim for personal independence payment after an interval and after reaching the relevant age


(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.
(2) The exceptions referred to in paragraph (1) are—
(a) Article 88(1) does not apply;
(b) the reference to “2 years” in regulation 15(1)(b) is to be read as “one year”;
(c) where C is assessed as having severely limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim—
(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
(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
(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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/2016/217/regulation/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/personal-independence-payment-regulations-northern-ireland-2016/regulation-26
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