Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977

13 Mobility allowances for certain persons eligible for invalid carriages

(1) Regulations may provide for the issue, variation and cancellation of certificates in respect of prescribed categories of persons to whom this section applies; and a person in respect of whom such a certificate is issued shall, during any period while the certificate is in force, be deemed for the purposes of section 37A of the principal Act (which relates to mobility allowance) to be suffering from such disablement as is mentioned in subsection (1) of that section and to satisfy the requirements of paragraph (a) of subsection (2) of that section.

(2) Regulations may provide that the said section 37A shall have effect, in relation to prescribed categories of persons in respect of whom such certificates as aforesaid are in force, as if in subsection (5) (which among other things provides that a person over pensionable age shall not be entitled to a mobility allowance) the words " or over pensionable age " were omitted.

(3) This section applies to any person whom the Secretary of States considers—

(a) was on 1st January 1976 in possession of an invalid carriage or other vehicle provided in pursuance of section 33 of the [1968 c. 46.] Health Services and Public Health Act 1968 (which relates to vehicles for persons suffering from physical defect or disability) or receiving payments in pursuance of subsection (3) of that section ; or

(b) had at that date, or at a later date specified by the Secretary of State, made an application which the Secretary of State approved for such a carriage or vehicle or for such payments; or

(c) was, both at some time during a prescribed period before that date and at some time during a prescribed period after that date, in possession of such a carriage or vehicle or receiving such payments ; or

(d) would have been, by virtue of any of the preceding paragraphs, a person to whom this section applies but for some error or delay for which in the opinion of the Secretary of State the person is not responsible and which is brought to the attention of the Secretary of State within the period of one year beginning with the date of the passing of this Act.