{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-assistance-scheme-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-assistance-scheme-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-2.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2009/48",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-assistance-scheme-scotland-regulations-2009",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations–\n“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;\n“administering agency” means a person or a body of persons appointed under regulation 3(1);\n“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;\n“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;\n“electric storage heater” means–\n(a) a free standing storage heater;\n(b) an electric fan assisted storage warm air system;\n(c) an electric wired underfloor heating system, set in a solid floor or floors; or\n(d) an electric ceiling heating system;\n“energy inefficient dwelling” means a dwelling which does not attain a Standard Assessment Procedure rating of 39 or above;\n“maternity certificate” means a maternity certificate which accords with the requirements of regulation 2(3) of the Social Security (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1976 or regulation 2 of the Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1987;\n“network installer” has the meaning given in section 15 of the Social Security Act 1990;\n“owner” includes any person who under the Lands Clauses Acts would be enabled to sell and convey land to the promoters of an undertaking;\n“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;\n“Standard Assessment Procedure” refers to the Government’s Standard Assessment Procedure for Energy Rating of Dwellings, 2005 Edition; and\n“tenant” includes a sub-tenant and a person who–\n(i) occupies a dwelling in terms of a contract of employment;\n(ii) has a licence to occupy a dwelling; or\n(iii) is a cottar within the meaning of section 12(5) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993,\nbut 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.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 2 in force at 6.4.2009, see reg. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 (c. 4)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 1976/615; regulation 2(3) was amended by S.I. 1987/409 and 2001/2931."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.I. 1987/235; regulation 2 was amended by S.I. 2001/2931."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Defined in Schedule 1 to the Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "Published by the Building Research Establishment."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "1993 c. 44."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "2001 asp 10."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2012/34",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2012/34",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2012/38",
      "affecting_title": "The Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2012"
    },
    {
      "type": "coming into force",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/48",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/392",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2011/56",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2011"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/48/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:03:14.639052+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."
}