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28.—(1) This regulation applies where, immediately before any claim for personal independence payment is made by or on behalf of a person entitled to disability living allowance, there is a person (“the appointed person”)—
(a)appointed by the Department in accordance with regulation 33(1) of the 1987 Regulations (persons unable to act); or
(b)treated, by virtue of paragraph (1A) of that regulation(1), as being a person appointed by the Department in accordance with paragraph (1) of that regulation,
to exercise rights on behalf of the person entitled to disability living allowance and receive and deal with any sums payable to that person.
(2) Where this regulation applies the appointed person shall be regarded as acting on behalf of the person entitled to disability living allowance for the purposes of the making and pursuit of a claim for personal independence payment under these Regulations and, where applicable, the Claims and Payments Regulations.
Paragraph (1A) was inserted by regulation 5(7)(a) of S.R. 2005 No. 46 and amended by paragraph 2(3) of Schedule 2 to S.R. 2006 No. 407
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