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Termination of entitlement to disability living allowance following failure to claim personal independence payment

11.—(1) Where a notice is sent to a notified person under paragraph (1) of regulation 10 and the person makes no claim for personal independence payment before the end of the period specified in sub-paragraph (c) of that paragraph, the person’s entitlement to disability living allowance shall terminate with effect from the day on which the suspension of the person’s entitlement took effect in accordance with regulation 9(2).

(2) The Department must send any person in relation to whom paragraph (1) takes effect a notice in writing—

(a)informing the person that the person’s entitlement to disability living allowance has terminated and of the date on which the termination took effect; and

(b)explaining that it is no longer possible for the person’s entitlement to disability living allowance to be reinstated but that it remains open to the person to claim personal independence payment.