These Regulations make amendments of secondary legislation in consequence of the introduction of the allowance known as personal independence payment under Part 4 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012. The provisions of most significance are as follows.

Regulation 5 amends the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Regulations 2000. A new regulation 4(2)(aa) is inserted in those Regulations so as to make eligible for a disabled person’s badge certain recipients of personal independence payment.

Regulation 6 amends regulation 2 of the Student Loans (Scotland) Regulations 2000 so as to include personal independence payment within the definition of “disability related benefit”. The result is that a person in receipt of personal independence payment may have his or her loan liability cancelled out if permanently unfit for work.

Regulation 9 amends the National Bus Travel Concession Scheme for Older and Disabled Persons (Eligible Persons and Eligible Services) (Scotland) Order 2006. Article 3 of that Order is amended so as to make recipients of personal independence payment eligible persons for the purposes of the National Bus Travel Concession Scheme.