{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-facilities-grants-and-home-repair-assistance-maximum-amounts-order-1996/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-facilities-grants-and-home-repair-assistance-maximum-amounts-order-1996/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1996/2888",
  "legislation_title": "The Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) Order 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-facilities-grants-and-home-repair-assistance-maximum-amounts-order-1996",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order prescribes the maximum amounts of mandatory disabled facilities grant and home repair assistance which a local housing authority may give under Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (which replaced Part VIII of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989).\nArticle 2 specifies the maximum amount for mandatory disabled facilities grant that a local housing authority can be required to pay. Article 3 authorises an authority to pay a further (unlimited) amount of grant on top of the maximum amount of mandatory grant. Article 4 specifies the maximum amount of home repair assistance which may be given on any one application and article 5 the maximum total amount of such assistance which may be given for the same property in any three years. Article 6 contains transitional provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2888/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:32:10.637554+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}