{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013/regulation-26.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2013/377",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Security (Personal Independence Payment) Regulations 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-personal-independence-payment-regulations-2013",
  "path": "regulation/26",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Claim for personal independence payment after an interval and after reaching the relevant age",
  "text": "(1) Where C has reached the relevant age and makes a new claim in the circumstances set out in regulation 15 the following exceptions apply.\n(2) The exceptions referred to in paragraph (1) are—\n(a) section 83(1) of the Act (persons of pensionable age) does not apply;\n(b) the reference to ‘2 years’ in regulation 15(1)(b) is to be read as ‘1 year’;\n(c) where C is assessed as having severely limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim—\n(i) C is entitled to the enhanced rate of the mobility component only if C was entitled to that rate of that component under the previous award of personal independence payment or adult disability payment; and\n(ii) where C is not entitled to the enhanced rate of that component because of paragraph (i), C is entitled to the standard rate of that component provided that C was entitled to that rate of that component under the previous award of personal independence payment or adult disability payment; and\n(d) where C is assessed as having limited ability to carry out mobility activities for the purposes of the new claim, C is entitled to the standard rate of the mobility component only if C was entitled to that component, at either rate, under the previous award of personal independence payment or adult disability payment.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(2)(c)(i) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 14(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(2)(c)(ii) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 14(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 26(2)(d) inserted (21.3.2022) by The Social Security (Disability Assistance for Working Age People) (Consequential Amendments) Order 2022 (S.I. 2022/177), arts. 1(2), 14(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 26 coming into force in accordance with reg. 1(2) and S.I. 2013/358"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2013/377/regulation/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T01:03:38.365890+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."
}