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Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991

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3 Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board.E+W+S

(1)There shall be a body, to be known as the Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board (and in this Act referred to as “the Board”).

(2)Regulations shall confer on the Board such functions relating to disability living allowance or attendance allowance as the Secretary of State thinks fit and shall make provision for—

(a)the Board’s constitution;

(b)the qualifications of its members;

(c)the method of their appointment;

(d)the term of office and other terms of appointment of its members;

(e)their removal.

(3)Regulations may also make provision—

(a)enabling the Board to appoint persons as advisers to it on matters on which in its opinion they are specially qualified;

(b)for the appointment of officers and servants of the Board;

(c)enabling the Board to act notwithstanding any vacancy among its members;

(d)enabling the Board to make rules for regulating its procedure (including its quorum).

(4)The expenses of the Board to such an amount as may be approved by the Treasury shall be paid by the Secretary of State out of money provided by Parliament.

(5)There may be paid as part of the expenses of the Board—

(a)to all or any of the members of the Board, such salaries or other remuneration and travelling and other allowances;

(b)to advisers to the Board, such fees; and

(c)to such other persons as may be specified in regulations such travelling and other allowances (including compensation for loss of remunerative time),

as the Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury determine.

(6)The Secretary of State may furnish the Board with such information as he considers that it may need to enable it to discharge its functions.

(7)Regulations under this section may make such incidental, supplementary, consequential or transitional provision as appears to the Secretary of State to be expedient for the purposes of the regulations.

(8)In this section “regulations” means regulations made by the Secretary of State by statutory instrument.

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I1S. 3 wholly in force 12.8.1991; s. 3 in force for certain purposes 3.7.1991; and for all other purposes 12.8.1991 see s. 15(2) and S.I. 1991/1519, art. 2

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