Chapter TCM0122060
| Published date | 09 April 2016 |
| Record Number | TCM0122060 |
| Court | HM Revenue & Customs |
| Issuer | HM Revenue & Customs |
A person has a prescribed disability if any of the following descriptions apply
- When standing, they cannot keep their balance unless they continually hold onto something.
- Using any crutches, walking frame, walking stick, prosthesis or similar walking aid that they habitually use, they cannot walk a continuous (unbroken or without interruption) 100 metres along level ground without stopping or without suffering severe pain.
- They cannot use either hand behind their back as in the process of putting on a jacket or tucking a shirt or blouse into a waistband.
- They cannot extend either arm in front of them so as to shake hands with another person without difficulty.
Note: A difficult task requires effort and is troublesome or hard, needing much labour to do (not a small or moderate amount of labour). For example, a fit person would not find climbing stairs difficult, even though effort is involved. However, someone with a heart condition may experience breathlessness or pain or may take a long time to climb the stairs and therefore find the task difficult.
- They cannot put either of their hands up to their head without difficulty, so as to put on a hat.
- Due to lack of manual dexterity, they cannot pick up with one hand a coin that is less than 2.5 centimetres in diameter (smaller than a ten pence piece).
Note: ‘Manual dexterity’ means the skill needed to pick up a coin. Any associated bending or crouching needed is not part of the test. A person meets the test if a coin of the relevant size cannot be picked up using only one hand.
- They are not able to use their hands or arms to pick up a full one litre jug and pour from it into a cup, without difficulty.
- They cannot turn either hand sideways through 180 degrees.
- They are certified as severely sight impaired or blind by a consultant Ophthalmologist.
- They cannot see to read 16 point print further than 20 centimetres away wearing the glasses they normally use.
- They cannot hear a phone ring (when in the same room as the phone) wearing any hearing aid they normally use.
Note: This means a ring of the normal volume expected of a phone, not one fitted with a special amplifier for the benefit of a deaf person.
- In a quiet room (where the listener is not distracted by other noise) they have difficulty in hearing what someone (talking in a loud voice at a distance of two metres) says wearing any hearing aid they normally use.
- People who know the customer well have difficulty in understanding what...
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