Paragraph 16 Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996I1

England and Wales

(1)

Paragraph 7 of Schedule 1A (applicable amounts for persons who have attained or whose partner has attained the qualifying age for state pension credit) is amended as follows.

(2)

In sub-paragraph (3)—

(a)

after “and that partner is” omit “blind or”;

(b)

after “severely sight-impaired or is treated as” omit “blind or”.

(3)

For sub-paragraph (4)(a) substitute the following—

“(a)
a person is severely sight-impaired if they are registered as severely sight-impaired in a register kept by a local authority in England under section 77(1) of the Care Act 2014 (registers of sight-impaired adults) or, as the case may be, registered as severely sight-impaired in a register kept by a local authority in Wales under section 18(1) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, and”.

(4)

In sub-paragraph (4)(b)—

(a)

after “to be registered as” omit “blind or”;

(b)

after “nevertheless to be treated as” omit “blind or”.

Annotations

Commencement

I1: Sch. 3 para. 16 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)