Regulation 2 InterpretationI1

In these Regulations–

• “the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992^f1;

• “administering agency” means a person or a body of persons appointed under regulation 3(1);

• “central heating system” means a system which provides warmth to 2 or more rooms in a dwelling through a series of connected radiators or ducts linked to a central boiler or some other heat source or from a series of electric storage heaters and controlled from one central point;

• “dwelling” includes any self contained part of a building which is occupied as a separate dwelling, and includes mobile homes that have been permanently fixed to a site;

• “electric storage heater” means–

  1. (a)

     a free standing storage heater;

  2. (b)

     an electric fan assisted storage warm air system;

  3. (c)

     an electric wired underfloor heating system, set in a solid floor or floors; or

  4. (d)

     an electric ceiling heating system;

• “energy inefficient dwelling” means a dwelling which does not attain a Standard Assessment Procedure rating of 39 or above;

• “maternity certificate” means a maternity certificate which accords with the requirements of regulation 2(3) of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976^f2 or regulation 2 of the Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1987^f3;

• “network installer” has the meaning given in section 15 of the Social Security Act 1990;

• “owner” includes any person who under the Lands Clauses Acts^f4 would be enabled to sell and convey land to the promoters of an undertaking;

• “partner” means a spouse or civil partner or any person who lives with the applicant as husband or wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex;

• “Standard Assessment Procedure” refers to the Government’s Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings, 2005 Edition^f5; and

• “tenant” includes a sub-tenant and a person who–

  1. (i)

     occupies a dwelling in terms of a contract of employment;

  2. (ii)

     has a licence to occupy a dwelling; or

  3. (iii)

     is a cottar within the meaning of section 12(5) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993^f6,

  but excludes a tenant of a local authority or a body registered as a social landlord by virtue of section 57 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001^f7.