# The Social Security (Severe Disablement Allowance) Regulations 1984, Regulation 10: Adjudication


(1) For the purposes of section 36(5) (extent of disablement) of the Act, the evidence required that on any day a person suffers or suffered from loss of physical or mental faculty such that the assessed extent of the resulting disablement amounts or amounted to not less than 80 per cent. shall consist of—
(a) evidence that that day falls within a period when the person is or was entitled to attendance allowance under section 35(2) of the Act;
(b) evidence that on that day he is or was entitled to—
(i) a mobility allowance under section 37A of the Act or the mobility component of disability living allowance at the higher rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZC(10) of the Act or the care component of disability living allowance at the highest or middle rate prescribed in accordance with section 37ZB(3) of the Act; or
(ii) a mobility supplement under article 26A of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 or under article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983;
evidence that on that day he is or was entitled to the care component of disability living allowance at the highest rate prescribed in accordance with section 72(3) and (4) (a) of the Contributions and Benefits Act;
(c) evidence that the extent of his disablement on that day has been assessed for the purposes of section 57 of the Act as not less than 80 per cent;
(d) evidence that that day is or was or is or was later than one in respect of which it has been determined under the Vaccine Damage Payments Act 1979 that he is or was severely disabled as a result of a vaccination against any of the diseases to which that Act applies;
(e) evidence that the degree of his disablement on that day has been assessed for the purposes of Part III of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 or of Part III of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 as not less than 80 per cent;
(f) evidence that on that day he is or was registered as a blind or partially sighted person in a register compiled under section 29 of the National Assistance Act 1948;
(ff) evidence that he has been certified as blind or partially sighted and that in consequence he is or was registered on that day as blind or partially sighted in a register maintained by or on behalf of a regional or islands council;
(g) evidence that on that day the Secretary of State provides or provided him with an invalid carriage or other vehicle under section 5(2) of the National Health Service Act 1997 or makes or made payments by way of grant to him under paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to that Act;
(gg) evidence that on that day the Secretary of State provides or provided him with an invalid carriage or other vehicle under section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978or makes or made payments by way of grant to him under that section;
(h) evidence that the extent of his disablement on that day has been assessed for the purposes of section 36 of the Act as not less than 80 per cent; or
(hh) subject to paragraph (2B) and during the period referred to in regulation 7(1B), evidence that he has been determined on that day to be a welfare to work beneficiary in accordance with regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995;
(i) such other evidence as satisfies the Secretary of State or, as the case may be, an appeal tribunal constituted under Chapter I of Part I of the Social Security Act 1998 that he so suffers or suffered.
(2) For the purposes of sub-paragraphs (a) to (h) of paragraph (1) an official record of the Department of Social Security of any fact specified in those sub-paragraphs shall be sufficient evidence of that fact.
(2A) For the purposes of paragraphs (1)(g) and (1)(gg) “invalid carriage or other vehicle” means a vehicle propelled by petrol engine or by electric power supplied for use on the road and to be controlled by the occupant.
(2B) Paragraph (1)(hh) shall not apply to a welfare to work beneficiary who, in his immediate past period of incapacity for work within the meaning of regulation 13A of the Social Security (Incapacity for Work) (General) Regulations 1995, was not assessed to be disabled in accordance with section 68(6) of the Contributions and Benefits Act.
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1984/1303/regulation/10 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-severe-disablement-allowance-regulations-1984/regulation-10
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