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The Disabled Persons (Badges for Motor Vehicles) (England) Regulations 2000

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Descriptions of disabled persons

4.—(1) The prescribed descriptions of disabled person to whom a local authority may issue a disabled person’s badge are a person who is more than 2 years old who falls within one or more of the descriptions specified in paragraph (2).

(2) The descriptions are a person who–

(a)receives the higher rate of the mobility component of the disability living allowance in accordance with section 73 of the Social Security and Benefits Act 1982(1);

(b)uses a motor vehicle supplied by the Department of Social Security or the Scottish Executive or is in receipt of a grant pursuant to section 5(2)(a) of the National Health Service Act 1977(2) or section 46 of the National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978(3);

(c)is registered as blind under section 29(4)(g) of the National Assistance Act 1948(4) or, in Scotland, is a blind person within the meaning of section 64(1) of that Act;

(d)receives a mobility supplement under article 26A of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983(5) including such a supplement by virtue of any scheme or order under article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983(6);

(e)drives a motor vehicle regularly, has a severe disability in both upper limbs and is unable to turn by hand the steering wheel of a motor vehicle even if that wheel is fitted with a turning knob; or

(f)has a permanent and substantial disability which causes inability to walk or very considerable difficulty in walking.

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