Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Housing Grants (Assessment of Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/461) which provide a means of assessment of an applicant’s contribution to the cost of works for which improvement grants, repairs grants and grants for a means of escape from fire for a house in multiple occupation may be given by a local authority.

The amendments made by these Regulations exclude payments from the Eileen Trust, Skipton Fund and variant Creutzfeld Jakob Trusts from being treated as income for the purpose of assessing an applicant’s contribution (regulations 3, 7(b) and 11).

Further, the amendments only allow deductions from income for mortgage or rent payments where a person is contractually obliged to make that payment (regulation 12). Lastly these Regulations make minor and drafting changes.