Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1992
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 1992/705 |
| Year | 1992 |
1992 No. 705
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1992
Made 12th March 1992
Laid before Parliament 12th March 1992
Coming into force 6th April 1992
The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections109, 137(2) and 190(1) of the Local Government and Housing Act 19891and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby make the following Regulations:
Citation, commencement and interpretation
1. These Regulations, which may be cited as the Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1992, shall come into force on 6th April 1992, and in these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations 19902.
Amendment of Regulations
2.—(1) The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with this regulation.
(2) In regulation 2 (interpretation), the following definitions are inserted after the definition of “concessionary payment”—
““disability living allowance” means a disability living allowance under section 37ZA of the 1975 Act3;
“disability working allowance” means a disability working allowance under section 20 of the 1986 Act4;”.
(3) In Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations (applicable amounts), in Part III (premiums)—
(a)
(a) in paragraph 12(1)(a)(i), for the words “mobility allowance” there are substituted the words “disability living allowance, disability working allowance”;
(b)
(b) for paragraph 12 (1)(a)(ii) there is substituted—
“was in receipt of invalidity pension under section 15 of the 1975 Act when entitlement to that benefit ceased on account of the payment of a retirement pension under that Act and, if the invalidity pension was payable to his partner, the partner is still a member of the family, or”;
(c)
(c) for paragraph 12(1)(a)(iii) there is substituted—
“was in receipt of attendance allowance or disability living allowance but payment of benefit has been suspended in accordance with regulations made under section 82(6)(b) of the 1975 Act, or”;
(d)
(d) in paragraph 13(2)(a)(i), (b)(i) and (3)(a), after the words “attendance allowance” in each place where they appear there are inserted the words...
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