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Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Amendment (Age Adjustment Table) Determination 2020

I, Andrew Whitecross, Group Manager, make the following Determination as delegate of the Secretary of the Department of Social Services.

Dated 11 September 2020    

Andrew Whitecross

Group Manager, Pensions and Family Payments

 

Contents

1  Name

2  Commencement

3  Authority

4  Schedules

Schedule 1—Amendments 2

Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination 2020 2

 

1  Name

  This instrument is the Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Amendment (Age Adjustment Table) Determination 2020.

2  Commencement

 (1) Each provision of this instrument specified in column 1 of the table commences, or is taken to have commenced, in accordance with column 2 of the table. Any other statement in column 2 has effect according to its terms.

 

Commencement information

Column 1

Column 2

Column 3

Provisions

Commencement

Date/Details

1.  The whole of this instrument

Immediately after the commencement of the Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination 2020.

 

Note: This table relates only to the provisions of this instrument as originally made. It will not be amended to deal with any later amendments of this instrument.

 (2) Any information in column 3 of the table is not part of this instrument. Information may be inserted in this column, or information in it may be edited, in any published version of this instrument.

3  Authority

  This instrument is made under section 38E of the Social Security Act 1991.

4  Schedules

  Each instrument that is specified in a Schedule to this instrument is amended or repealed as set out in the applicable items in the Schedule concerned, and any other item in a Schedule to this instrument has effect according to its terms.


Schedule 1—Amendments

Disability Care Load Assessment (Child) Determination 2020

1  Step 13, Part 1, Schedule 2 – Age adjustment table

Repeal the Age adjustment table, substitute:

Age

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Age grouping in Months

12 to < 15

15 to < 18

18 to < 21

21 to < 24

24 to < 27

27 to < 30

30 to < 33

33 to < 36

36 to < 39

39 to < 42

42 to < 45

45 to < 48

48 to < 51

51 to < 54

54 to < 57

57 to < 60

60 to < 63

63 to < 66

66 to < 69

69 to < 72

 72 to < 75

75 to < 78

78 to < 81

81 to < 84

> = 84

Q22 ‑ Eating

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Q23 ‑ Grooming

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Q24 ‑ Bathing

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Q25 ‑ Dressing ‑ upper

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Q26 ‑ Dressing ‑ lower

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Q27 ‑ Toileting

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Q28 ‑ Bladder

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Q29 ‑ Bowel

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Q30 ‑ Mobility Toilet

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Q31 ‑ Mobility Chair/ Wheelchair

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Q32 ‑ Mobility Bath/Shower

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Q34 ‑ Mobility Walk/Wheelchair (indoors)

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Q35 ‑ Mobility Walk/Wheelchair (outdoors)

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Q36 ‑ Mobility Stairs

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Note:  Questions 20, 21 and 33 are excluded from this table as they are non-scoring questions