Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Housing (Service Charge Loans) Regulations 1992 (“the 1992 Regulations”) which provide for housing authorities to make loans to their tenants in respect of service charges for repairs or improvements. The amendments which apply only in relation to Wales, relate to loans made under the discretionary power in regulation 5 of the 1992 Regulations. That power may be exercised, in respect of flats, by “housing authorities”. The term “housing authority” for the purposes of these amendments is defined in section 450B(4) of the Housing Act 1985.

Regulation 2 substitutes regulation 6(2) of the 1992 Regulations to provide that a loan made under the power in regulation 5 may be on terms that do not require the payment of interest or that require the payment of interest on only part of the loan.

Regulation 3 amends paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to the 1992 Regulations in consequence of the new regulation 6(2).