# The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2009, Regulation 2: Interpretation

Extent: S
Status: prospective

In these Regulations–
“the 1992 Act” means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
“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–
(a) a free standing storage heater;
(b) an electric fan assisted storage warm air system;
(c) an electric wired underfloor heating system, set in a solid floor or floors; or
(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 or regulation 2 of the Statutory Maternity Pay (Medical Evidence) Regulations 1987;
“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 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; and
“tenant” includes a sub-tenant and a person who–
(i) occupies a dwelling in terms of a contract of employment;
(ii) has a licence to occupy a dwelling; or
(iii) is a cottar within the meaning of section 12(5) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993,
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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2009/48/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-assistance-scheme-scotland-regulations-2009/regulation-2
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