{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-amendment-regulations-1996/regulation-4",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1996/587",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1996",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-amendment-regulations-1996",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Person who may apply for grant",
  "text": "(1) For regulation 3(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, council tax benefit, family credit, housing benefit or income support (each as provided for in Part VII of the 1992 Act); 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 7(2)(b) of Schedule 8 to the 1992 Act (constant attendance allowance).”.\n(2) In regulation 3(1)(c) after “1992 Act)” insert “or an income-based jobseeker’s allowance (within the meaning of the Jobseekers Act 1995)”.\n(3) In regulation 3(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) an increase of an allowance which is payable in respect of constant attendance under a scheme under, or having effect under, paragraph 4 of Part I of Schedule 8 to the 1992 Act;\n(c) a payment made under article 14, 15, 16, 43 or 44 of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme or any analogous payment;\n(d) any payment based on need for attendance which is paid with a war disablement pension; or\n(e) any payment intended to compensate for the non-payment of any payment, allowance or pension mentioned in sub-paragraphs (a) to (d) of this definition;”;\n(b) at the end of the definition of householder omit “and”;\n(c) after the definition of householder insert—\n““mobility supplement” means a mobility supplement under—\n(a) article 26A of the Naval, Military and 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); and”; and\n(d) after the definition of spouse insert—\n““war disablement pension” means—\n(a) a war disablement pension within the meaning of section 139(11) of the Social Security Administration Act 1992; and\n(b) a war disablement pension under article 10 of the Naval, Military and Air Forces etc. (Disablement and Death) Service Pensions Order 1983 (so far as that Order is made otherwise than under the Air Force (Constitution) Act 1917); and”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Regulation 3(1)(b) was substituted by S.I. 1994/637."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Inserted by regulation 4(1) of these Regulations."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1995 c. 18."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Regulation 3(2) was substituted by S.I. 1995/49."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "See section 5 of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975 (c. 16) which was repealed, with savings, by the Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f6",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/686; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1164 and 1984/1675."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f7",
      "text": "S.I. 1983/883; article 26A was inserted by S.I. 1983/1116 and amended by S.I. 1986/592, 1990/1308, 1991/766, 1992/710 and 1995/766."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f8",
      "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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f9",
      "text": "1992 c. 5."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f10",
      "text": "Article 10 was amended by S.I. 1993/598."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f11",
      "text": "7&8 Geo. 5 c.51."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/587/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:50:06.045594+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."
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