{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renewal-grants-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renewal-grants-amendment-regulations-1997/regulation-3.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1997/977",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renewal-grants-amendment-regulations-1997",
  "path": "regulation/3",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Amendment of regulation 5",
  "text": "For regulation 5 (definition of relevant person), substitute—\n“5 (1) Subject to paragraph (3), in respect of any one application, other than an application for a disabled facilities grant, a relevant person is any person who—\n(a) is an applicant, or\n(b) is not an applicant but is entitled to make the application and lives or intends to live in the dwelling or, as the case may be, a flat in the building,\nprovided that a young person shall not be a relevant person except where he is the only applicant.\n(2) Subject to paragraph (3), in respect of any one application for a disabled facilities grant a relevant person is any person who—\n(a) is the disabled occupant, or one of the disabled occupants, of the dwelling or the flat in the building and is not a child or young person for whom a relevant person is responsible by virtue of sub-paragraph (c); or\n(b) is the partner, or a partner, of the disabled occupant or of one of the disabled occupants and is not a child or young person for whom a relevant person is responsible by virtue of regulation 8; or\n(c) where the disabled occupant or any of the disabled occupants is a child or young person, is responsible for him within the meaning of regulation 8 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another).\n(3) Where sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1), or any of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph (2), applies to both members of a couple or to more than one member of a polygamous marriage, one member only of that couple or of that polygamous marriage shall be a relevant person in respect of that application.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/977/regulation/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:10:37.863698+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."
}