These Regulations amend the Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (Scotland) Regulations 2000 (“the 2000 Regulations”). Those Regulations deal with what is known as the “blue badge” scheme.

Regulation 3 inserts a new regulation 9A into the 2000 Regulations. Regulation 9A provides for the return to its holder of a blue badge which has been retained by a constable or enforcement officer on the ground that it was being displayed on a vehicle other than in accordance with the 2000 Regulations.

Regulation 4 inserts a new regulation 10A into the 2000 Regulations. Regulation 10A requires a local authority to review (on request) any decision made by it that a person is not eligible for a blue badge.

Regulation 5 amends paragraph 1 in Part IIIA of the Schedule to the 2000 Regulations so as to delete certain requirements as to the form of a blue badge.