{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-6.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/790",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-scheme-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/6",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Calculation of amount of grant",
  "text": "(1) An area agency shall not pay a total amount of grant in respect of an application exceeding—\n(a) in the case of a works application, the amount properly charged for the works carried out or £315, whichever is the lesser, and\n(b) in the case of a materials-only application, the amount properly charged for the materials purchased for and used in the works carried out or £160, whichever is the lesser.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (1), an area agency shall have power, with the consent of the Secretary of State, to specify—\n(a) a maximum amount of grant which may be paid, and\n(b) a grant-calculation basis, expressed in terms of amounts per unit of measurement,\nfor any category or combination of categories of works.\n(3) Where the applicant qualifies for grant by virtue only of sub-paragraph (a) of regulation 4(1), the maximum amount of grant and the grant-calculation basis applicable to any category of works, and the maximum amount of grant payable in respect of the application, shall be one-quarter of the amount or basis which would otherwise apply.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "uksi/1999/1018",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 1999"
    },
    {
      "type": "amended",
      "affecting": "wsi/2000/1039",
      "affecting_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2000"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/790/regulation/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:21:09.530283+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."
}