# The Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) Order 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Order)
This 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).
Article 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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/2888/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/disabled-facilities-grants-and-home-repair-assistance-maximum-amounts-order-1996/note
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