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The Disability Assistance for Working Age People (Scotland) Regulations 2022

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Vehicles for persons with disabilities – powers of appointees

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56.—(1) Where a person (“an appointee”) is appointed by the Scottish Ministers under the 2018 Act to act on an individual’s behalf in connection with the determination of the individual’s entitlement to assistance under section 24 (duty to give assistance) of the 2018 Act, in addition to the powers conferred on the appointee by that Act the appointee can, on behalf of the individual—

(a)enter into an agreement with an authorised provider of vehicles for the hire or hire-purchase of a vehicle,

(b)terminate any such agreement,

(c)for the purpose of regulation 55(1), give consent to the Scottish Ministers to pay (in whole or in part) the mobility component to which the individual is entitled to the provider, and

(d)withdraw any such consent.

(2) An appointee may exercise the powers conferred by paragraphs (1)(b) and (d) whether the agreement was entered into, or the consent given, by the appointee or by any other person.

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