# The Home Energy Efficiency Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1996, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Home Energy Efficiency Grants Regulations 1992, which provide for grants to improve energy efficiency in dwellings and certain buildings in multiple occupation, and for agencies to administer the making of the grants.
Regulation 4 extends eligibility for grants to cases where an individual receives an attendance or disability living allowance, an income-based jobseeker’s allowance or both a war disablement pension and a mobility supplement or constant attendance allowance.
Regulations 5, 7, 8(a)(ii) and (iii) and (b) and 9 replace references to cases where the applicant carries out the grant works himself with references to cases where the works are not carried out by eligible contractors. Regulations 6 and 10 remove redundant words in regulations 7 and 13 of the 1992 Regulations.
Regulation 8(a)(i) and (c) provides for a reduced amount of grant where the applicant is only eligible for a grant because he is at least 60 years old (or the applicant’s spouse, where they are living together, has attained that age).
The Regulations come into force on 1st April 1996, except for regulation 4(2) (eligibility for grant in income-based jobseeker allowance cases) which comes into force on 7th October 1996. Regulation 9 contains transitional provisions.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/587/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-amendment-regulations-1996/note
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