The Social Security (Disability Living Allowance and Personal Independence Payment) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016 No. 235

Amendment of the Personal Independence Payment Regulations

3.  In regulation 29 of the Personal Independence Payment Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016(1) (hospital in-patients)—

(a) for the heading, substitute “Hospital in-patients aged 18 or over”;

(b) in paragraph (1) after “Subject to” insert “paragraph (3) and”; and

(c) after paragraph (2) add—

“(3) This regulation does not apply if C was under the age of 18 on the day on which C entered the hospital or similar institution referred to in Article 91(2) to begin C’s current period as an in-patient.”.

(1)

S.R. 2016 No. 217