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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-energy-efficiency-grants-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "nisr/1996/417",
  "legislation_title": "The Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/domestic-energy-efficiency-grants-amendment-regulations-northern-ireland-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Persons who may apply for grant",
  "text": "(1) For regulation 4(1)(b) (persons who may apply for grant) substitute—\n“(b) who at the time of making the application has, or lives with a spouse who has, attained the age of 60; or\n(c) who at the time of making the application is, or lives with a spouse who is, in receipt of an attendance allowance, a disability living allowance (as provided for in Part III of the 1992 Act), a disability working allowance, family credit, housing benefit, income support (each as provided for in Part VII of the 1992 Act), or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance within the meaning of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995, or\n(d) who at the time of making the application is, or lives with a spouse who is, in receipt of a war disablement pension, and\n(i) a mobility supplement or a payment intended to compensate for the non-payment of such a supplement, or\n(ii) a payment made under regulations made under paragraph 4(2)(b) of Schedule 8 to the 1992 Act (constant attendance allowance).”.\n(2) In regulation 4(2)—\n(a) before the definition of householder insert—\n““an attendance allowance” means—\n(a) an attendance allowance under Part III of the 1992 Act;\n(b) a payment made under Article 14, 15, 16, 43 or 44 of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 or any analogous payment;\n(c) any payment based on need for attendance which is paid with a war disablement pension; or\n(d) any payment intended to compensate for the non-payment of any payment, allowance or pension mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) of this definition;”;\n(b) After the definition of householder insert—\n““mobility supplement” means a mobility supplement under—\n(a) Article 26A of the Naval, Military or Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 (including such a supplement payable by virtue of the application of that article by any other scheme or order); or\n(b) under Article 25A of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 (including that article as applied by Article 48A of that Scheme).”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/686; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1164 and 1984/1675"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/883; Article 26A was inserted by S.I. 1983/1116 and amended by S.I. 1983/1521, S.I. 1986/592, 1990/1308, 1991/766, 1992/710 and 1995/766"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Article 25A was inserted by S.I. 1983/1164 and amended by S.I. 1983/1540, 1986/628, 1990/1300, 1991/708 and 1992/702; Article 48A was inserted by S.I. 1984/1289"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisr/1996/417/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T02:33:47.597384+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."
}