Regulation 4 Amendment of regulation 6 of the Mobility Allowance (Vehicle Scheme Beneficiaries) Regulations 1977

(1)

Regulation 6 of the Mobility Allowance (Vehicle Scheme Beneficiaries) Regulations 1977^f1 (application of the Social Security Act 1975 etc. in relation to vehicle scheme beneficiaries) shall be amended in accordance with the following provisions of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (a) for the reference to “75” there shall be substituted a reference to “80”^f2.

(3)

In paragraph (c)—

(a)

for the reference to “the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984” there shall be substituted a reference to “the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1986”^f3;

(b)

in sub-paragraph (i) for the words “regulations 54 after paragraph (1)(b)” there shall be substituted the words “regulation 56 after paragraph (2)(b)”; and

(c)

for sub-paragraph (ii) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(ii)

in regulation 62 after paragraph (4) there were added—

“(5)

Where the grounds of an application under paragraph (2) are that a certificate issued for the purposes of section 13 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 has been cancelled, the adjudication officer may himself determine any medical question arising on review adversely to the person in question without referring it to a medical board and the provisions of regulations 57(3) and 58 to 61 shall apply to that determination as if it were an adverse determination under regulation 57(2).””.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: S.I. 1977/1229, to which the relevant amending instruments are section 21(4) of and paragraph 32 of Schedule 3 to the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18) and S.I. 1984/458.
f2: See section 8(1) of the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24) which increased the age limit for entitlement to mobility allowance from 75 to 80.
f3: Regulations 54 and 60 of the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1984 (S.I. 1984/451), were revoked, amongst others, by S.I. 1986/2218.