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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-regulations-1990/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-regulations-1990/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1990/1791",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Grants Regulations 1990",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-regulations-1990",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations provide for the making of grants for the improvement of energy efficiency in dwellings occupied by persons on low income and in the communal areas of buildings occupied by such persons; for the appointment of administering agencies to administer the making of grants; and for the registration of network installers capable of carrying out the work for which grants may be made.\nRegulations 3 to 8 determine eligibility for a grant. Regulation 3 makes provision for the persons who can apply for a grant; regulations 4 and 5 for the form and manner of application; regulation 6 for the work for which a grant may be made; regulation 7 for the persons by whom work may be carried out; and regulation 8 for the dwellings eligible for a grant.\nRegulations 9 and 10 provide for the handling of applications; and regulation 11 for the calculation of grants and applicants' contributions. Regulation 12 sets out the conditions for payment of a grant.\nRegulation 13 makes provision for communal area grants.\nRegulations 14 and 15 provide for the registration by the administering agency of network installers; for the general oversight of these installers and for the allocation of amounts of money to be available for their work.\nRegulation 16 provides for the appointment, functions and funding of administering agencies.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1791/note",
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  "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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