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The Social Security (Introduction of Disability Living Allowance) Regulations 1991

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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART I INTRODUCTION

    1. 1. Citation, commencement and interpretation

  3. PART II ATTENDANCE ALLOWANCE

    1. 2. Termination or cancellation of awards of attendance allowance

    2. 3. Award of disability living allowance

    3. 4. Claims for, and applications for reviews of decisions relating to, attendance allowance

    4. 5. Claim for care component treated as having been made

    5. 6. Termination of awards of attendance allowance when beneficiary aged 65 or over

  4. PART III MOBILITY ALLOWANCE

    1. 7. Termination or cancellation of awards of mobility allowance

    2. 8. Disability living allowance to replace mobility allowance

    3. 9. Claims for, and applications for reviews of decisions relating to, mobility allowance

    4. 10. Claim for mobility component treated as having been made

  5. PART IV PROVISIONS COMMON TO PARTS II AND III

    1. 11. Separate awards of attendance allowance and mobility allowance

    2. 12. Backdating of awards of disability living allowance

    3. 13. Treatment of two awards of disability living allowance

    4. 14. Reviews

  6. PART V CLAIMS, PAYMENTS AND ADJUDICATION

    1. 15. Second tier adjudication

    2. 16. Claims for a single component of disability living allowance

    3. 17. Claims in addition

    4. 18. Claim for disability living allowance treated as not having been made

    5. 19. Claims for attendance allowance or mobility allowance treated as not having been made

    6. 20. Claim for disability living allowance where person has an award of attendance allowance or mobility allowance

    7. 21. Claims for both old and new benefits outstanding

    8. 22. Determination of claims for, or of applications for review of decisions relating to, attendance allowance

    9. 23. Appeals to Commissioners from decisions of the Attendance Allowance Board

    10. 24. Persons claiming mobility allowance

    11. 25. Reference to an adjudication officer

    12. 26. Payments of disability living allowance

    13. 27. Persons unable to act

  7. Signature

  8. Explanatory Note

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