{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-schemes-wales-regulations-2011/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "wsi/2011/656",
  "legislation_title": "The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/home-energy-efficiency-schemes-wales-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the 2007 Regulations” (“Rheoliadau 2007”) means the Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2007 ;\n“the 2010 Amendment Regulations” (“Rheoliadau Diwygio 2010”) means the Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2010 ;\n“advice” (“cyngor”) means advice on reducing or preventing the wastage of energy in dwellings in respect of which any works are carried out or contemplated;\n“advice application” (“cais am gyngor”) means an application which is for a grant in relation to advice and in which the applicant proposes that an area agency will arrange for the giving of advice;\n“area agency” (“asiantaeth ardal”) means, except in paragraph (1) of regulation 4, the person or body of persons for the time being appointed and responsible for the area in question under that Regulation;\n“asset rating” (“dosbarthiad ased”) has the meaning given in regulation 2(1) of the Energy Performance of Buildings (England and Wales) Regulations 2012;\n“dwelling” (“annedd”) includes any building in multiple occupation; and for this purpose “building in multiple occupation” means a building which is occupied by persons who do not form a single household, exclusive of any part of the building which is occupied as a separate dwelling by persons who form a single household;\n“eligibility criteria” (“meini prawf cymhwystra”) means the criteria determined for the time being by or (as the case may be) in accordance with Regulation 5;\n“health eligibility criteria” (“meini prawf cymhwystra iechyd”) means a person living with a chronic respiratory, circulatory or mental health condition;”\n“households below average income report” (“adroddiad aelwydydd islaw’r incwm cyfartalog”) means the data published from time to time by the Secretary of State on household and individual incomes under section 4 of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.\n“income threshold” (“trothwy incwm”) means the income threshold as determined from time to time pursuant to Section 7(1)(a) of the Tax Credits Act 2002 ;\n“lower income household” (“aelwyd incwm is”) means a household with a net income, excluding any income from disability related benefits or payments, that is less than 60% of the median equivalised net household income before housing costs based on the most recent published data in the households below average income report;\n“Means-tested benefit” (“budd-daliad sy’n dibynnu ar brawf modd”) means—\n(a)income support and housing benefit (each as defined in Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992);\n(b)council tax reduction scheme (as defined in Local Government Finance Act 1992);\n(c)state pension credit (as defined in the State Pension Credit Act 2002);\n(d)working tax credit and child tax credit (each as defined in the Tax Credits Act 2002) provided that in each case the income of the applicant does not exceed the relevant income threshold;\n(e)income-related employment and support allowance (as defined in the Welfare Reform Act 2007); ...\n(f)universal credit (as defined in the Welfare Reform Act 2012); and\n(g) income-based jobseeker’s allowance (as defined in section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995\n“occupant” (“meddiannydd”) means a person who lawfully occupies a dwelling as his or her only or main residence and who intends to continue in occupation of the dwelling in the long term;\n...\n“private occupancy” (“meddiannaeth breifat”) means occupancy of a dwelling such that none of the occupants occupies that dwelling as a tenant or licensee of a county council, county borough council or registered social landlord ...;\n“works” (“gweithfeydd”) means works falling within the types of work specified by or (as the case may be) pursuant to Regulation 6;\n“works application” (“cais gweithfeydd”) means an application in which the applicant proposes that an area agency will arrange for the carrying out of the works in respect of which a grant is sought.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (1.4.2018) by The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/319), regs. 1(2), 3(a) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2024) by The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/339), regs. 1(2), 4(a) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 substituted (30.11.2013) by The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2843), regs. 1(2), 3(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 omitted (1.4.2024) by virtue of The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/339), regs. 1(2), 4(b)(i) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2024) by The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/339), regs. 1(2), 4(b)(ii) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 inserted (1.4.2024) by The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024 (S.I. 2024/339), regs. 1(2), 4(b)(iii) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (1.4.2018) by virtue of The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2018 (S.I. 2018/319), regs. 1(2), 3(b) (with reg. 7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in reg. 2 omitted (30.11.2013) by virtue of The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2013 (S.I. 2013/2843), regs. 1(2), 3(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "S.I. 2007/375 (W.35)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "S.I. 2010/453 (W.49)."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "2002 c. 21. The levels of income threshold for Child Tax Credit and Working Tax Credit are currently provided for in the Tax Credits (Income Thresholds and Determination of Rates) Regulations 2002 (S.I.2002/2008) as amended, the latest relevant amending instrument being S.I.2009/2008."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2011/656/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:51:24.467335+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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