This Statutory Instrument has been made in consequence of a defect in S.I. 2013/387 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument
Statutory Instruments
2019 No. 1011
Social Security
The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2019
Made
10th June 2019
Laid before Parliament
13th June 2019
Coming into force
4th July 2019
The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 83(3), 93 and 94(1), (2) and (3) of, and paragraphs 1(1), 4(1)(b) and 4(2)(c)(i) of Schedule 10 to, the Welfare Reform Act 2012( 1 ), makes the following Regulations:
In accordance with section 173(1)(b) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992( 2 ), the Social Security Advisory Committee has agreed that proposals in respect of these Regulations should not be referred to them.
Citation and commencement
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2019 and come into force on 4th July 2019.
Amendment to the Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013
2. After regulation 27 (persons aged 65 and over to be entitled to personal independence payment in certain circumstances) of the Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2013( 3 ) insert—
“ Revision and supersession of an award of personal independence payment in certain circumstances
27A. —(1) Subject to paragraph (2), section 83(1) of the Act ( 4 ) (persons of pensionable age) does not apply to a person who —
(a) met the conditions at paragraph (2) or (3) of regulation 27, and
(b) is entitled to an award of personal independence payment (“the original award”), and that award is revised or superseded within the meaning of section 9 or 10 of the 1998 Act ( 5 ) respectively.
(2) Where the original award includes the mobility component of personal independence payment and is superseded, paragraphs (2) and (3) of regulation 27 of the PIP Regulations apply in relation to the supersession.
(3) In this regulation, the references to an original award are to be read as including a concessionary payment made in lieu of personal independence payment under arrangements by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury. ” .
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Justin Tomlinson
Minister of State
Department for Work and Pensions
10th June 2019