Regulation 12C Adjustment of benefit to certain persons exempted from regulation 12AF1
Subject to paragraph (3), where a person is a person to whom regulation 12B(4) applies and the mobility component would otherwise be payable at the higher rate prescribed by regulation 4(2)(a), the benefit shall be adjusted so that it is payable at the lower rate prescribed by regulation 4(2)(b).
Subject to paragraph (3), where regulation 12B(7) applies, the benefit shall be adjusted so that it is payable at a rate equal to the weekly amount payable under the relevant agreement for the period referred to in that regulation.
Where paragraphs (4) and (7) of regulation 12B both apply, the benefit shall be adjusted so that it is payable either at the lower rate prescribed by regulation 4(2)(b) or at a rate equal to the weekly amount payable under the relevant agreement referred to in regulation 12B(7), whichever is the greater.
Annotations
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Reg. 12A to 12C inserted (31.7.96) by S.I. 1996/1436 reg. 1, 2
Notes on the whole SI
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1975 c.14 . Sections 37ZA–37ZE were inserted in the Social Security Act 1975, by the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991; section 166 was amended by the Social Security Act 1989 (c.24) Schedule 8, paragraph 10(1); subsection (3A) was inserted in section 166 by the Social Security Act 1986 (c.50) , section 62(1) ; Schedule 20 is cited because of the meaning it ascribes to the words “Prescribed” and “Regulations”, and for the enabling power contained within the meaning of the word “Child”, which was inserted by the Child Benefit Act 1975 (c.61) , Schedule 4 , paragraph 38 .
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1977 c.5 ; section 13 was amended by the Social Security Act 1979 (c.18) Schedule 3, paragraph 29(c) and the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 (c.21) , section 4 , Schedule 2 , paragraph 8 .