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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renewal-grants-amendment-regulations-1999/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1999/1523",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1999",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renewal-grants-amendment-regulations-1999",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend Part II of the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (“the principal Regulations”), which sets out a means test for determining the amount of renovation grant and disabled facilities grant which may be paid by local authorities to owner-occupier and tenant applicants under Chapter I of Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.\nThe amendments reflect changes in housing benefit regulations, upon which the means test is based, and make minor and drafting changes.\nRegulations 3 to 15 contain the amendments. In particular:\nregulation 5 uprates the multipliers in regulation 12 of the principal Regulations (reduction in amount of grant);\nregulation 6 provides for certain payments made to providers under the New Deal for unemployed persons (“New Deal”) to be excluded from a person’s notional income;\nregulations 7, 8, 9 and 15 amend provisions in Chapter IX of Part II of, and Schedule 4 to, the principal Regulations (capital): regulation 7 provides that certain receipts of any commercial activity carried on by a New Deal participant shall be treated as a person’s capital, regulation 8 provides that rehabilitation allowances and payments made to providers under the New Deal shall be excluded from a person’s notional capital, and regulation 15 provides for certain payments made to New Deal participants to be disregarded for the purposes of calculating a person’s capital;\nregulations 10, 11 and 12 amend provisions in Chapter X of Part II of the principal Regulations (students) with respect to the assessment of a student’s income;\nregulation 13 uprates the applicable amounts and premiums in Schedule 1 to the principal Regulations;\nregulation 14 provides for the following to be disregarded in the calculation of a person’s income other than earnings–\ncertain payments made pursuant to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 and the National Assistance Act 1948;\npayments received under certain insurance policies taken out to insure against the risk of being unable to maintain repayments on certain loans or under a hire-purchase or similar agreement; and\ncertain payments made to New Deal participants.\nRegulation 16 contains transitional provisions.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
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  "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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