Part IV Miscellaneous and Supplemental

Miscellaneous

70 Payments in respect of applicants for exempting from wearing seat belts.

1

The Secretary of State may make payments out of money provided by Parliament in respect of the examination of applicants falling within any class mentioned in subsection (2) below, being applicants for medical certificates required as a condition of any exception prescribed by regulations under section 33A or 33B of the 1972 Act (wearing of seat belts).

2

The classes referred to in subsection (1) above are—

a

those in receipt of—

i

attendance allowance under section F164 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;

F2iA

a disability living allowance under section F371 of that Act;

F4ii

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iii

disablement pension under section F5103 of that Act at a weekly rate increased by virtue of section F5104(1) of that Act (constant attendance needed); or

iv

an allowance under article 14 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order M11978 (constant attendance allowance);

F6v

mobility supplement under a scheme made under the Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act 1939 or under an Order in Council made under section 12 of the Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (war pensioners mobility supplement); or

vi

a disability pension paid by the Secretary of State for Defence on account of disability attributable to injury sustained after 30th September 1921 but before 3rd September 1939 together with a mobility supplement paid under the Naval and Marine Pay and Pensions (Disablement Awards) (No. 2) Order 1984 or under Royal Warrant dated 30th December 1949 or under Queen’s Regulations for the Royal Air Force.

b

those in receipt F7of income support F8or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance (payable under the Jobseekers Act 1995)F10, any element of child tax credit other than the family element or working tax credit and their dependants;

F9bb

those in receipt of guarantee state pension credit (under section 1(3)(a) of the State Pension Credit Act 2002) and those persons who (within the meaning of that Act) are members of a married or unmarried couple the other member of which is in receipt of guarantee state pension credit;

c

those provided with invalid carriages or other vehicles under subsection (1) of section 46 of the M2National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978 or in receipt of grants under subsection (3) of that section in respect of invalid carriages or other vehicles which belong to them; and

d

those whose names are in the register of disabled persons maintained under section 6 of the M3Disabled Persons (Employment) Act 1944.

3

The Secretary of State may by order amend subsection (2) above (whether as originally enacted or as previously amended under this subsection) so as to omit any of the classes mentioned in that subsection or add to or substitute for any of those classes other classes of any description.