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Regulation 4 Persons to whom assistance may be given

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(1)

Assistance may only be given to an applicant who satisfies the following conditions —

(a)

he is wholly or mainly resident in the dwelling, and

(b)

he has an owner’s interest in the dwelling or is a tenant of the dwelling (alone or jointly with others), and

(c)

either he, or his spouse, or the person with whom he lives as husband and wife, is in receipt of income support, family credit, housing benefit or community charge benefit (within the meaning of section 20 of the Social Security Act 1986 f1), and

(d)

if the works are for the purpose specified in regulation 3(1)(d) above, he is 60 years of age or more.

(2)

In this regulation “tenant” does not include a tenant of an authority or body mentioned in section 101(3) of the Act.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1

1986 c. 50; section 20 was amended by paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41)