The Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 No. 38

Part V Claims, Payments and Adjudication

Claims for disability living allowance where a person has an award of attendance allowance or mobility allowance

20.—(1) Subject to paragraph (3), where a person—

(a) has an award of attendance allowance; and

(b) makes a claim for disability living allowance,

the claim for the care component shall be treated as not having been made.

(2) Subject to paragraph (3), where a person—

(a) has an award of mobility allowance; and

(b) makes a claim for disability living allowance,

the claim for the mobility component shall be treated as not having been made.

(3) Where the claim for disability living allowance is made in anticipation of the expiry of an award of attendance allowance or of mobility allowance, then paragraph (1) or, as the case may be, paragraph (2) shall not apply.