# The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme Regulations 1997, Regulation 8: Works applications: duties of registered installer


(1) Where a works application complying with regulation 7 has been received by a registered installer, the registered installer shall consider whether there appears to be eligiblity for grant and compliance with any conditions applicable under regulation 5(4) to the dwelling and the subject-matter of the proposed works.
(2) If not satisfied that there is eligibility for grant and compliance with any applicable conditions, the registered installer shall so notify the applicant in writing and shall forward the application promptly to the area agency for determination.
(3) If satisfied that there is eligibility for grant and compliance with any applicable conditions, the registered installer shall decide whether, pending determination of the application by the area agency, he is prepared to carry out the works on the basis that, except in a case where the application for grant is not approved or the claim not paid by the area agency by reason of a material misrepresentation, the applicant shall be liable to pay in respect of the works only such amount as has been agreed in writing between the applicant and the registered installer before the making of the application as representing the amount by which the full cost of the works exceeds the amount of grant applied for.
(4) If the registered installer is so prepared, he shall—
(a) promptly notify the applicant in writing that he is prepared to carry out the works on the basis that, subject to the liability of the applicant as described in paragraph (3), he will, in the event that the area agency do not approve the application, make no claim against the applicant for the cost of that part of the works which would have been grant-aided had a grant been made; and
(b) when the works have been completed, promptly send the application to the area agency for determination, endorsed with—
(i) a claim for payment complying with regulation 10(2), and
(ii) a signed and dated certificate that the applicant’s eligibility for grant, and the compliance of the dwelling as a whole and of the subject-matter of the proposed works with any conditions applicable under regulation 5(4), have been verified in accordance with such requirements as may be laid down from time to time by the area agency.
(5) If the registered installer is not so prepared, he shall promptly send the application to the area agency for determination and notify the applicant in writing that he is awaiting determination of the application by the area agency.
(6) In a case to which paragraph (2) or (5) applies, and where the area agency have approved and returned the application to the registered installer pursuant to regulation 9(4)(b)(ii), when the registered installer has completed the works, he shall promptly return the application, endorsed with a claim for payment complying with regulation 10(2), to the area agency.
(7) For the purposes of this regulation, “material misrepresentation” means any representation made by or on behalf of the applicant in respect of any of the matters relating to eligibility for grant which is false in a material particular.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/790/regulation/8 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-scheme-regulations-1997/regulation-8
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