Regulation 18 Claim for disability living allowance treated as not having been made
Subject to the following provisions of this regulation, a claim for a disability living allowance shall be treated as not having been made where the person who made the claim, or on whose behalf the claim was made—
has an award of both attendance allowance and mobility allowance and each award is for a period due to expire after 5th April 1992, or
has an existing award of disability living allowance, consisting of both components, or
has two existing awards of disability living allowance, where one award consists of the care component and the other award consists of the mobility component, or
has an award of disability living allowance consisting of one component and has in addition submitted another claim for a single component of that benefit in accordance with regulation 16.
Paragraph (1) shall not apply where the claim for a disability living allowance is made in anticipation of the expiration of the award of attend ance allowance or of mobility allowance or of disability living allowance.