Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Housing (Forms) (Scotland) Regulations 1980 (which prescribe the forms in which applications for improvement and repairs grants must be made) to take account of the change from using rateable values to using council tax valuation bands as a means of imposing valuation limits above which applications for improvement and repairs grants in respect of certain houses will not be approved. (The change was made by the Council Tax (Amendment of Housing (Scotland) Act 1987) (Scotland) Regulations 1996 and the Housing (Valuation Bands for Improvement and Repairs Grants) (Scotland) Order 1996 (S.I. 1996/741)). These Regulations make appropriate amendments in the parts of the forms and the notes to them which were framed in terms of rateable values.