{ "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renovation-etc-grants-reduction-of-grant-regulations-1990/regulation-2", "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renovation-etc-grants-reduction-of-grant-regulations-1990/regulation-2.json", "legislation": "uksi/1990/1189", "legislation_title": "The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations 1990", "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-renovation-etc-grants-reduction-of-grant-regulations-1990", "path": "regulation/2", "kind": "regulation", "number": "2", "heading": "Interpretation", "text": "(1) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–\n“the Act” means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;\n“the 1975 Act” means the Social Security Act 1975;\n“the 1986 Act” means the Social Security Act 1986;\n“application” means an application within section 109(1) of the Act;\n“assessment period” means such period as is prescribed in regulations 17 to 19 over which income falls to be determined;\n“attendance allowance” means–\n(a) an attendance allowance under section 35 of the 1975 Act;\n(b) an increase of disablement pension under section 61 of that Act;\n(c) a payment under regulations made in exercise of the power conferred by section 159(3)(b) of that Act;\n(d) an increase of an allowance which is payable in respect of constant attendance under section 5 of the Industrial Injuries and Diseases (Old Cases) Act 1975;\n(e) a payment by virtue of article 14, 15, 16, 43 or 44 of the Personal Injuries (Civilians) Scheme 1983 or any analogous payment;\n(f) any payment based on need for attendance which is paid as part of a war disablement pension;\n“the benefit Acts” has the meaning assigned by section 84(1) of the 1986 Act;\n“boarder” means a person who pays a charge for his accommodation and at least some cooked or prepared meals which are both prepared and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises;\n“child” means a person under the age of 16;\n“child benefit” means child benefit under Part I of the Child Benefit Act 1975;\n“close relative” means a parent, parent-in-law, son, son-in-law, daughter, daughter-in-law, step-parent, step-son, step-daughter, brother, sister, or the spouse of any of the preceding persons or, if that person is one of an unmarried couple, the other member of that couple;\n“community charge benefits” means community charge benefits under Part II of the 1986 Act;\n“concessionary payment” means a payment made under arrangements made by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury which is charged either to the National Insurance Fund or to a Departmental Expenditure Vote to which payments of benefit under the 1986 Act, the 1975 Act or the Child Benefit Act 1975 are charged;\n“earnings” has the meaning assigned by regulation 21 or, as the case may be, 23;\n“employed earner” is to be construed in accordance with section 2(1)(a) of the 1975 Act;\n“family” means–\n(a) a married or unmarried couple;\n(b) a married or unmarried couple and a member of the same household for whom one of them is or both are responsible and who is a child or a young person;\n(c) a person who is not a member of a married or unmarried couple and a member of the same household for whom that person is responsible and who is a child or a young person;\n“health authority” has the same meaning as in section 128(1) of the National Health Service Act 1977;\n“housing benefit” means housing benefit under Part II of the 1986 Act;\n“income-related benefit” means any benefit to which section 20(1) of the 1986 Act refers;\n“income support” means income support under Part II of the 1986 Act;\n“the Independent Living Fund” means the charitable trust established out of funds provided by the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing financial assistance to those persons incapacitated by or otherwise suffering from very severe disablement who are in need of such assistance to enable them to live independently;\n“invalid carriage or other vehicle” means a vehicle propelled by petrol engine or electric power supplied for use on the road and to be controlled by the occupant;\n“local authority” means–\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, the council of a district or London borough, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly; and\n(b) in relation to Scotland, an islands or district council;\n“lone parent” means a person who has no partner and who is responsible for and a member of the same household as a child or young person;\n“the MacFarlane Trust” means the charitable trust, established partly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State to the Haemophilia Society, for the relief of poverty or distress among those suffering from haemophilia;\n“the MacFarlane (Special Payments) Trust” means the trust of that name, established on 29th January 1990, partly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from haemophilia;\n“married couple” has the meaning assigned to it by section 20(11) of the 1986 Act;\n“member of a couple” means a member of a married or unmarried couple;\n“mobility allowance” means an allowance under section 37A of the 1975 Act;\n“mobility supplement” means a supplement to which paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 refers;\n“net earnings” means such earnings as are determined in accordance with regulation 22;\n“net profit” means such profit as is determined in accordance with regulation 24;\n“non-dependant” has the meaning assigned by regulation 4;\n“occupational pension” means any pension or other periodical payment under an occupational pension scheme but does not include any discretionary payment out of a fund established for relieving hardship in particular cases;\n“partner” means–\n(a) where a person is a member of a married or unmarried couple, the other member of that couple; or\n(b) where a person is polygamously married to two or more members of his household, any such member;\n“payment” includes part of a payment;\n“policy of life insurance” means any instrument by which the payment of money is assured on death (except death by accident only) or the happening of any contingency dependent on human life, or any instrument evidencing a contract which is subject to payment of premiums for a term dependent on human life;\n“polygamous marriage” means any marriage during the subsistence of which a party to it is married to more than one person and the ceremony of marriage took place under the law of a country which permits polygamy;\n“rates”–\n(a) in relation to England and Wales, has the same meaning as in the General Rate Act 1967; and\n(b) in relation to Scotland, has the same meaning as in section 379 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1947 except that it does not include domestic water rate within the meaning of section 39 of the Water (Scotland) Act 1980;\n“relevant person” has the meaning assigned by regulation 3;\n“remunerative work” has the meaning assigned by regulation 5;\n“self-employed earner” is to be construed in accordance with section 2(1)(b) of the 1975 Act;\n“single person” means a person who neither has a partner nor is a lone parent;\n“social fund payment” means a payment under section 32 of the 1986 Act;\n“student” has the meaning assigned by regulation 38;\n“training allowance” has the meaning assigned by regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987;\n“unmarried couple” means a man and woman who are not married to each other but are living together as husband and wife;\n“war disablement pension” has the meaning assigned by section 84(1) of the 1986 Act;\n“war widow’s pension” has the meaning assigned by section 84(1) of the 1986 Act;\n“year of assessment” has the meaning assigned by section 832(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;\n“young person” means a person, not being a person who is in receipt of income support or a person who is receiving advanced education within the meaning of regulation 12(2) of the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987 (relevant education), aged 16 or over but under 19 who is treated as a child for the purposes of section 2 of the Child Benefit Act 1975 (meaning of child).\n(2) In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference–\n(a) to a numbered Part is to the Part of these Regulations bearing that number;\n(b) to a numbered regulation or Schedule is to the regulation in, or the Schedule to, these Regulations bearing that number;\n(c) in a regulation or Schedule to a numbered paragraph is to the paragraph in that regulation or Schedule bearing that number;\n(d) in a paragraph to a lettered or numbered sub-paragraph is to the sub-paragraph in that paragraph bearing that letter or number.", "extent": null, "status": null, "version": "current", "annotations": [ { "type": "footnote", "label": "f1", "text": "1975 c. 14." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f2", "text": "1986 c. 50." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f3", "text": "Section 35 was amended by the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 63, the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 2 and by the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), Schedule 1, Part II, paragraph 8." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f4", "text": "Sub-sections (3) and (4) of section 61 were added by the Social Security Act 1986 (c. 50), Schedule 3, paragraph 6." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f5", "text": "1975 c. 16." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f6", "text": "S.I. 1983/686; relevant amending instruments are S.I. 1983/1164 and 1984/1675." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f7", "text": "Section 84(1) was amended by the Social Security Act 1989 (c. 24), Schedule 8, paragraph 19(e)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f8", "text": "1975 c. 61." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f9", "text": "Part II was amended by Schedule 10 to the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (c. 41)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f10", "text": "1977 c. 49; this definition was substituted by paragraph 11 of Schedule 3 to the Health and Social Security Act 1984 (c. 48)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f11", "text": "Section 37A was inserted by section 22(1) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975 (c. 60) and amended by the National Health Service Act 1977 (c. 49), Schedule 15, paragraph 64, the Social Security Act 1979 (c. 18), section 3 and the Social Security Act 1986, section 71 and Schedule 11." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f12", "text": "1967 c. 9." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f13", "text": "1947 c. 43 (10 & 11 Geo. 6)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f14", "text": "1980 c. 45." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f15", "text": "S.I. 1987/1971; the definition was inserted by S.I. 1990/546, regulation 2(b)." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f16", "text": "The definitions were amended by the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988 (c. 1), Schedule 29, paragraph 32, Table." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f17", "text": "1988 c. 1." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f18", "text": "S.I. 1987/1967; regulation 12 was substituted be regulation 5 of S.I. 1990/547." }, { "type": "footnote", "label": "f19", "text": "1975 c. 61; section 2 was amended by sections 4 and 8 of, and Schedule 5, Part I to, the Social Security Act 1980 (c. 30), section 70 of the Social Security Act 1986 and section 4(3) of the Social Security Act 1988(c. 7)." } ], "outstanding_effects": [ { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1993/551", "affecting_title": "The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1993" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": "uksi/1993/551", "affecting_title": "The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1993" }, { "type": "amended", "affecting": "uksi/1993/551", "affecting_title": "The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Reduction of Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1993" }, { "type": "substituted", "affecting": 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