# The Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991, Paragraph 7: Award of care component where person entitled to mobility component


(1) This paragraph applies where a person on or after attaining the age of 65 is entitled to the mobility component or the mobility component of Scottish adult disability living allowance and–
(a) an adjudicating authority is satisfied that the decision giving effect to that entitlement ought to be revised under section 9 of the or superseded under section 10 of that Act, or
(b) the person makes a renewal claim for disability living allowance.
(2) A person to whom this paragraph applies shall not be precluded solely by reason of the fact that he has attained the age of 65 from entitlement under section 72(1) of the Act by virtue of having satisfied either the conditions mentioned in subsection (1)(b) or in subsection (1)(c), or in both those subsections, but in determining a person’s entitlement, section 72 of the Act shall have effect as if in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of that section, for the reference to 3 months there was substituted a reference to 6 months and paragraph (b) of that subsection were omitted.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2890/schedule/1/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-disability-living-allowance-regulations-1991/schedule-1/paragraph-7
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