{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-introduction-of-disability-living-allowance-regulations-1991/regulation-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-introduction-of-disability-living-allowance-regulations-1991/regulation-1.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1991/2891",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-introduction-of-disability-living-allowance-regulations-1991",
  "path": "regulation/1",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Citation, commencement and interpretation",
  "text": "(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991 and shall come into force on 3rd February 1992.\n(2) In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991 ;\n“the 1975Act” means the Social Security Act 1975 ;\n“the 1986 Act” means the Social Security Act 1986 ;\n“care component” means the care component of a disability living allowance;\n...\n“mobility component” means the mobility component of a disability living allowance;\n“adjudicating authority” means, as the case may require, an adjudication officer, a social security appeal tribunal, a disability appeal tribunal or the chief or any other Social Security Commissioner appointed in accordance with section 97(3) of the 1975 Act, including a Tribunal of 3 such Commissioners constituted in accordance with section 116 of that Act;\n“second tier adjudication” has the meaning given to it in regulation 15.\n(3) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference—\n(a) to a numbered regulation is to the regulation bearing that number in these Regulations;\n(b) in a regulation to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph bearing that number in that regulation.\n(4) Any sum payable in accordance with these Regulations is payable subject to the provisions of chapters II and VI of Part II of the 1975 Act, and of any regulations made thereunder.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 1(2) omitted (25.11.1993) by virtue of The Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/2704), regs. 1, 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1991 c.21."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1975 c.14."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1986 c.50."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1991/2891/regulation/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T14:32:02.366716+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."
}