Explanatory note

These Regulations prescribe a form for applications for grants under Chapter I of Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 to which section 30 of that Act (means testing in case of application by owner-occupier or tenant) applies (save for landlord’s applications for disabled facilities grant). The Regulations also prescribe particulars to be contained in such applications.

The Regulations reflect the means test rules for owner-occupiers and tenants contained in the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2890). In substance, the form prescribed in Schedule 1 is principally a consolidation both of Forms 1, 2 and 3 prescribed by the Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Prescribed Forms and Particulars) Regulations 1994 as amended. In appearance, the form differs from those previously prescribed, since a number of questions and notes have been omitted or amalgamated. There are also new questions and notes reflecting provisions specific to the 1996 Act and recent changes to housing benefit rules (the means test for owner-occupier’s and tenant’s applications for housing renewal grants being closely based on the means test for housing benefit).

By regulation 4, the Regulations do not apply to owner-occupiers' and tenants' applications for grant made before the Regulations came into force.