{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-regulations-1990/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-grants-regulations-1990/regulation-8.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": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Dwellings eligible for a grant",
  "text": "(1) Any dwelling is eligible for a grant except, in respect of work specified in sub-paragraphs (a) and (c) of paragraph (1) of regulation 6, a dwelling in which there is or has been at any time, during the period when the applicant has been resident in the dwelling, insulation material of a thickness of 50 millimetres or more in all or any part of any roof space.\n(2) A dwelling which is within the exception in paragraph (1) shall nonetheless be eligible for a grant if all the insulation material of a thickness of 50 millimetres or more in the roof space–\n(a) is insulating a water tank, cylinder, water supply pipe, or overflow or expansion pipe; or\n(b) is in insulated additional roof space.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1990/1791/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T15:07:29.248830+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."
}