{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-regulations-2016/schedule-3/paragraph-16.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2016/211",
  "legislation_title": "The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-services-and-well-being-wales-act-2014-consequential-amendments-secondary-legislation-regulations-2016",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/16",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996",
  "text": "(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.\n(2) In sub-paragraph (3)—\n(a) after “and that partner is” omit “blind or”;\n(b) after “severely sight-impaired or is treated as” omit “blind or”.\n(3) For sub-paragraph (4)(a) substitute the following—\n“(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”.\n(4) In sub-paragraph (4)(b)—\n(a) after “to be registered as” omit “blind or”;\n(b) after “nevertheless to be treated as” omit “blind or”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 16 in force at 6.4.2016, see reg. 1(2)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2016/211/schedule/3/paragraph/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:30:54.001237+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}