Regulation 31 Disabled people: badges for motor vehicles

(1)

In this regulation, “the 2000 Regulations” means the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2000.

(2)

Where a person satisfies paragraph (3)—

(a)

the person shall be treated as being a disabled person for the purpose of regulation 7 of the 2000 Regulations, and

(b)

regulation 9(1)(c) of the 2000 Regulations shall not apply to the person,

until the expiration of the period for which the disabled person's badge referred to in paragraph (3)(b)(i) was issued.

(3)

A person satisfies this paragraph if—

(a)

the entitlement of the person to disability living allowance terminates in accordance with these Regulations,

(b)

on the last day on which the person is entitled to disability living allowance the person—

(i)

is a holder of a disabled person's badge in accordance with the 2000 Regulations, and

(ii)

is a disabled person for the purposes of the 2000 Regulations by virtue of satisfying regulation 4(1)(a) and (2)(a) of the 2000 Regulations,

(c)

with effect from the following day the person is no longer a disabled person for the purposes of the 2000 Regulations because the person does not satisfy regulation 4(1)(a) and (2)(g) M1 of the 2000 Regulations, and

(d)

the period for which the badge mentioned above in sub-paragraph (b) was issued has not yet expired.

Annotations

Marginal citations

M1: Regulation 4(2)(g) was inserted by the Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/388, paragraph 23(2)(b) of the Schedule.