Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991
1991 CHAPTER 21
An Act to introduce as social security benefits disability living allowance and disability working allowance; and for connected purposes.
[27th June 1991]
Be it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
Disability living allowance
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2 Attendance allowance and mobility allowance.
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(2) The Attendance Allowance Board is dissolved.
(3) Section 37A of the 1975 Act (mobility allowance) is repealed.
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4 Management of disability living allowance and attendance allowance etc.
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(2) The further amendments specified in Schedule 2 to this Act shall be made.
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Disability working allowance
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7 Disability working allowance - supplementary.
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(2) The further amendments specified in Schedule 3 to this Act shall have effect.
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General
10 Repeals.
The enactments mentioned in Schedule 4 to this Act are repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule.
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15 Short title, commencement and extent.
(1) This Act may be cited as the Disability Living Allowance and Disability Working Allowance Act 1991, and this Act shall be included among the Acts which may be cited together as the Social Security Acts 1975 to 1991.
(2) Apart from the provisions specified in subsection (3) below, this Act shall come into force on such day as the Secretary of State may by order made by statutory instrument appoint; and different days may be appointed for different provisions of this Act or for different purposes of the same provision.
(3) The provisions referred to in subsection (2) above are sections 12, 13, 14 and this section.
(4) The following provisions of this Act extend to Northern Ireland—
section 4, so far as it relates to paragraphs 2, 6 and 7, 9, 11, 13 and 14, 18, 20 and 21 of Schedule 2;
section 5;
section 7, so far as it relates to paragraph 11 of Schedule 3;
section 10, so far as it relates to the repeals in Schedule 1 to the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and Schedule 5 to the Value Added Tax Act 1983;
section 11;
section 12;
section 13;
section 14; and
this section.
(5) Except as provided by this section, this Act does not extend to Northern Ireland.
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
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Section 4.
SCHEDULE 2 Disability Living Allowance and Attendance Allowance: Amendments
Vehicles (Excise) Act 1971 (c. 10)
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Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971 (c. 62)
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The 1975 Act
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House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 24)
Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 (c. 25)
6 In the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975 and the Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975, in Part II of Schedule 1 (bodies of which all members are disqualified), there shall be inserted, at the appropriate places in alphabetical order,— “ The Disability Living Allowance Advisory Board ” .
House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975
7 In the House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975, in Part III of Schedule 1 (other disqualifying offices) in—
(a) the entry beginning “A member of a panel appointed under section 7 of the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1971”;
(b) the entry beginning “A regional or other full-time Chairman”; and
(c) the entry for the President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals and Medical Appeal Tribunals,
for the words “and Medical Appeal Tribunals” there shall be substituted the words “ , Medical Appeal Tribunals and Disability Appeal Tribunals ” .
Social Security (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1977 (c. 5)
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Capital Gains Tax Act 1979 (c. 14)
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Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30)
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Transport Act 1982 (c. 49)
12 In section 70(2)(a) of the Transport Act 1982 (payments in respect of applicants for exemption from wearing seat belts) after sub-paragraph (i) there shall be inserted—
“ (iA) a disability living allowance under section 37ZA of that Act; ” .
Value Added Tax Act 1983 (c. 55)
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Inheritance Tax Act 1984 (c. 51)
14 (1) In section 74(4) of the Inheritance Tax Act 1984(disabled persons for purposes of provisions about pre-1981 trusts for disabled persons) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “ , or
(c) is in receipt of a disability living allowance under section 37ZA of the Social Security Act 1975 by virtue of entitlement to the care component at the highest or middle rate. ” .
(2) In section 89(4) of that Act (disabled persons for purposes of provisions about other trusts for disabled persons) after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted “ , or
(c) in receipt of a disability living allowance under section 37ZA of the Social Security Act 1975 by virtue of entitlement to the care component at the highest or middle rate. ” .
The 1986 Act
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Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1)
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Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24)
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Capital Allowances Act 1990 (c. 1)
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Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41)
22 In Schedule 11 to the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (judges etc barred from legal practice) the following entry shall be substituted for the entry beginning “President of Social Security Appeal Tribunals”— “ President of social security appeal tribunals, medical appeal tribunals and disability appeal tribunals or regional or other full-time chairman of such tribunals ” .
Section 7.
SCHEDULE 3 Disability Working Allowance: Amendments
Part I
Administration
Adjudication
Overpayments
Annual up-rating of benefits
Reciprocal arrangements
Crown employment
Financial provision
Part II Amendments of Other Acts
Child Care Act 1980 (c.5)
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Transport Act 1982 (c.49)
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Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c.1)
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Education Reform Act 1988 (c.40)
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Children Act 1989 (c.41)
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SCHEDULE 4 Repeals
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| 1975 c. 14. | Social Security Act 1975. | Section 34(1)(cc).In section 35—in subsection (2), the words from “that specified” to “as being”;in subsection (2B)(a)(i), the words “the date determined under section 105 or 106 below as”;subsection (4)(b) and the word “and” immediately preceding it;subsection (5); andin subsection (6)(b), the words from “or to young” to the end.Section 37A.In section 101(5A), the words “of a social security appeal tribunal”.Sections 105 and 106.Section 115A(2)(f).Section 115B(2)(e).Section 135(2)(cc).Section 140.In section 165D(4), in paragraph (a) of the definition of “adjudicating authority”, the words “the Attendance Allowance Board,”.In Schedule 4, in Part III, paragraph 3A.Schedule 11.In Schedule 16, in Part II, paragraph 7. |
| 1975 c. 24. | House of Commons Disqualification Act 1975. | In Schedule 1, in Part II, the entry relating to the Attendance Allowance Board. |
| 1975 c. 60. | Social Security Pensions Act 1975. | Section 22.In Schedule 4, paragraphs 47 and 52. |
| 1977 c. 49. | National Health Service Act 1977. | In Schedule 15, paragraph 64. |
| 1978 c. 29. | National Health Service (Scotland) Act 1978. | In Schedule 16, paragraph 40. |
| 1979 c. 18. | Social Security Act 1979. | Section 2(4).Section 3. |
| 1982 c. 49. | Transport Act 1982. | Section 70(2)(a)(ii). |
| 1983 c. 55. | Value Added Tax Act 1983. | In Schedule 5, in the seventh note to Group 14, the words “section 37A of the Social Security Act 1975 or”. |
| 1986 c. 50. | Social Security Act 1986. | Sections 71 and 72.In Schedule 5, paragraph 11. |
| 1988 c. 7. | Social Security Act 1988. | In section 1(2), in paragraph (a), the words from “by” to “that Act”, in paragraph (b), the words “by the Board or by such a delegate”, in paragraph (c), the words from “by the Board” to “1975” and the word “and”, and paragraph (d). |
| 1989 c. 24. | Social Security Act 1989. | Section 8.In Schedule 2, in Part I, paragraph (b) of the entry relating to adjudicating bodies.In Schedule 3, paragraph 8.In Schedule 7, paragraph 14. |
| 1990 c. 27. | Social Security Act 1990. | Section 1(3), (4) and (5). |