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The Social Security (Mobility Allowance and Adjudication) Amendment Regulations 1991
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- 1991 No. 706
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These Regulations amend the Mobility Allowance Regulations 1975 by providing that a person who has had both legs amputated at levels which are either through or above the ankle or who has one leg so amputated and is without the other leg, or is without both legs, to the same extent as if they had been so amputated (“a double amputee”) shall be treated for the purpose of mobility allowance as unable or virtually unable to walk, notwithstanding any use of an artificial aid or a prosthesis. They also amend the Social Security (Adjudication) Regulations 1986 by providing that where an adjudication officer has evidence that a person is a double amputee, he need not refer the question of whether that person is unable or virtually unable to walk to a medical practitioner.
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