The Social Security (Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

Invalid vehicle scheme

4.—(1) Where—

(a) a certificate issued in respect of a person under Article 10(1) of the 1977 Order is in force; or

(b) an invalid carriage or other vehicle is or was on or after 1st January 1976, provided to a person by the Department under Article 30(1) of the Order or by the Secretary of State under section 5(2)(a) of, and Schedule 2 to, the National Health Service Act 1977(1) or section 46(1) of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(2) being a carriage or other vehicle which is—

(i) propelled by a petrol engine or by an electric motor,

(ii) supplied for use on a public road, and

(iii) controlled by the occupant,

that person shall not be precluded from entitlement to the mobility component payable at the higher rate specified in regulation 4(2)(a), or the care component payable at the highest or middle rate specified in regulation 4(1)(a) or (b), by reason only of the fact that he has attained the age of 65.

(2) In determining a person’s entitlement where paragraph (1) applies, section 37ZB shall have effect as if in paragraph (a) of subsection (2) for the reference to 3 months there were substituted a reference to 6 months and as if paragraph (b) of that subsection were omitted.

(1)

1977 c. 49

(2)

1978 c. 29