The Personal Independence Payment (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2016
These Regulations contain transitional provisions for the phasing out of disability living allowance (“DLA”) and its replacement by personal independence payment (“PIP”). In particular they provide for the Department for Social Development (“the Department”) to invite people entitled to DLA (“a DLA entitled person”) to transfer to PIP and for them to lose their entitlement to DLA if they do not do so. The Regulations also enable people entitled to DLA to transfer to PIP voluntarily.