The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996

In forceThis text since 20 Nov 1996law://uk/uksi/1996/2890@2026-11-12

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Type: Statutory instrument · UKSI 1996/2890
Made by: UK Government (statutory instrument)
Extent: England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

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Amended by 25: The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019; The Higher Education and Research Act 2017 (Further Implementation etc.) Regulations 2019; The Neonatal Care Leave and Pay (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Regulations 2025; The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024; The Health and Care Act 2022 (Further Consequential Amendments) (No. 2) Regulations 2023; The Health and Care Act 2022 (Consequential and Related Amendments and Transitional Provisions) Regulations 2022; The Secretaries of State for Health and Social Care and for Housing, Communities and Local Government and Transfer of Functions (Commonhold Land) Order 2018; The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Regulations 2016; The Pensions Act 2014 (Consequential, Supplementary and Incidental Amendments) Order 2015; The Deregulation Act 2015 (Consequential Amendments) Order 2015; The Care Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) (Secondary Legislation) Order 2015; The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2014; The Jobseeker’s Allowance (Supervised Jobsearch Pilot Scheme) Regulations 2014; The Child Arrangements Order (Consequential Amendments to Subordinate Legislation) Order 2014; The Social Care (Self-directed Support) (Scotland) Act 2013 (Consequential Modifications and Savings) Order 2014; The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential Provisions) Order 2014; The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (Wales) (No. 2) Regulations 2013; The Universal Credit (Consequential Provisions) (Childcare, Housing and Transport) (Wales) Regulations 2013; The Universal Credit (Consequential, Supplementary, Incidental and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2013; The Armed Forces and Reserve Forces Compensation Scheme (Consequential Provisions: Subordinate Legislation) Order 2013; The Personal Independence Payment (Supplementary Provisions and Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2013; The Council Tax Benefit Abolition (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2013; The National Treatment Agency (Abolition) and the Health and Social Care Act 2012 (Consequential, Transitional and Saving Provisions) Order 2013; The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2013; The Jobseeker's Allowance (Schemes for Assisting Persons to Obtain Employment) Regulations 2013
Repealed by 4: The Council Tax Benefit Abolition (Consequential Provision) Regulations 2013; The Housing Renewal Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Amendment) Regulations 1996; The Relocation Grants Regulations 1997; The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1997
Applied by 1: The Flexible New Deal (Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2009

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applicant
means a person who applies, or who joins in an application, for a grant under Chapter I of Part I of the Act.
assessment period
means such period as is prescribed in regulations 20 to 22 over which income falls to be determined;
attendance allowance
means— (a) an attendance allowance under Part III of the 1992 Act;
board and lodging accommodation
means accommodation provided to a person or, where he is a member of a family, to him or any other member of his family, for a charge which is inclusive of the provision of that accommodation and at least some cooked and prepared meals which are both cooked or prepared (by a person other than the person to whom the accommodation is provided or a member of his family) and consumed in that accommodation or associated premises.
chargeable income
means—
charity
has the meaning given by section 96 of the Charities Act 1993, and “charitable body” shall be construed accordingly;
child
means a person under the age of 16;
child benefit
means child benefit under Part IX of the 1992 Act;
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;
college of further education
means a college of further education within the meaning of Part I of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;
communal area
means an area, other than a room or rooms, of common access (including halls and passageways).
community charge benefits
means community charge benefits under Part VII of the 1992 Act;
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 1992 Act are charged;
contribution
means any contribution (including one which is not paid) in respect of the income of any other person which the Secretary of State or an education authority takes into account in ascertaining the amount of the student’s grant;
council tax benefit
means council tax benefit under Part VII of the 1992 Act as amended by the Local Government and Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), section 103 and Schedule 9;
course of study
means any course of study, whether or not it is a sandwich course and whether or not a grant is made for undertaking or attending it and for the purposes of this definition a person who has started a course of study shall be treated as attending or undertaking it, as the case may be, until the last day of the course or such earlier date as he abandons it or is dismissed from it;
Crown property
means property held by Her Majesty in right of the Crown or by a government department or which is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department, except (in the case of an interest held by Her Majesty in right of the Crown) where the interest is under the management of the Crown Estate Commissioners;
current application
means an application to which regulation 12 refers.
disability living allowance
means a disability living allowance under Part III of the 1992 Act;
disability working allowance
means a disability working allowance under section 123 of that Act;
dwelling
includes any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.
earnings
means in the case of employment as an employed earner, any remuneration or profit derived from that employment and includes—
earnings top-up
means the allowance paid by the Secretary of State under the Earnings Top-up Scheme;
education authority
means a government department, a local education authority as defined in section 114(1) of the Education Act 1944 (interpretation), a local education authority as defined in section 123 of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973, an education and library board established under Article 3 of the Education and Libraries (Northern Ireland) Order 1986, any body which is a research council for the purposes of the Science and Technology Act 1965 or any analogous government department, authority, board or body of the Channel Islands, Isle of Man or any other country outside Great Britain;
family
means— (a) a married or unmarried couple;
full-time course of study
means a full-time course of study which— (a) is not funded in whole or in part by the FEFC or a full-time course of study (not being higher education) which is not funded in whole or in part by the Secretary of State for Scotland at a college of further education;
full-time student
means a person attending or undertaking a full-time course of study and includes a student on a sandwich course;
grant
means any kind of educational grant or award and includes any scholarship, studentship, exhibition, allowance or bursary but does not include a payment derived from funds made available by the Secretary of State for the purpose of assisting students in financial difficulties under section 100 of the Education Act 1944, section 65 of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992, section 73 of the Education (Scotland) Act 1980 or section 40 of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;
grant income
means— (a) any income by way of a grant;
health authority
means a health authority under section 8 of the National Health Service Act 1977;
higher education
means higher education within the meaning of Part II of the Further and Higher Education (Scotland) Act 1992;
housing benefit
means housing benefit under Part VII of the 1992 Act;
incapacity benefit
means long-term incapacity benefit or short-term incapacity benefit under Part II of the 1992 Act;
income
includes income to which regulations 30 (annuity treated as income), 31 (notional income), 43 (determination of grant income) and 46 (treatment of student loans) refer.
income support
means income support under Part VII of that Act;
income-related benefit
means any benefit to which section 123 of the 1992 Act refers;
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;
last day of the course
means the date on which the last day of the final academic term falls in respect of the course in which the student is enrolled;
local authority
means, in relation to England and Wales, the council of a county or district, a metropolitan district, a London Borough, the Common Council of the City of London or the Council of the Isles of Scilly or, in relation to Scotland, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
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;
long-term incapacity benefit
means long-term incapacity benefit under Part II of the 1992 Act;
married couple
means a man and a woman who are married to each other and are members of the same household;
maternity leave
means a period during which a woman is absent from work because she is pregnant or has given birth to a child, and at the end of which she has a right to return to work either under the terms of her contract of employment or under Part VIII of the Employment Rights Act 1996;
member of a couple
means a member of a married or unmarried couple;
mobility supplement
means a supplement to which paragraph 7 of Schedule 3 refers;
net earnings
means such earnings as are determined in accordance with regulation 25;
net profit
means such profit as is determined in accordance with regulation 27;
non-dependant
has the meaning given by regulation 6;
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;
ordinary clothing or footwear
means clothing or footwear for normally daily use, but does not include school uniforms, or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities;
part-time employment
means employment in which the person is engaged on average for less than 16 hours a week.
partner
means— (a) where a person is a member of a married or unmarried couple, the other member of that couple;
patient
means a person (other than a person who is serving a sentence of imprisonment or detention in a youth custody institution) who is regarded as receiving free in-patient treatment within the meaning of the Social Security (Hospital In-Patients) Regulations 1975.
payment
includes part of a payment;
pension fund holder
means with respect to a personal pension scheme or retirement annuity contract, the trustees, managers or scheme administrators, as the case may be, of the scheme or contract concerned;
personal pension scheme
has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Pension Schemes Act 1993 and, in the case of a self-employed earner, includes a scheme approved by the Board of Inland Revenue under Chapter IV of Part XIV of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;
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;
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;
qualifying contribution
means any sum which is payable periodically as a contribution towards a personal pension scheme.
qualifying person
means a person in respect of whom payment has been made from the Fund;
rates
means— (a) in relation to England and Wales, any amount payable under any of the sections 43, 45 or 54 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 (non-domestic rates) and includes any sum payable on account of any such amount;
relevant child care charges
means the charges paid by the relevant person for care provided for any child of the relevant person’s family who is under the age of 11 years, other than charges paid in respect of the child’s compulsory education or charges paid by a relevant person to a partner or by a partner to a relevant person in respect of any child for whom either or any of them is responsible in accordance with regulation 8 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another), where the care is provided— (a) by persons registered under section 71 of the Children Act 1989 (registration of child minders and persons providing day care for young children);
relevant enactment
means the Army Act 1955, the Air Force Act 1955, the Naval Discipline Act 1957, the Adoption Act 1958, the Matrimonial Proceedings (Children) Act 1958, the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, the Family Law Reform Act 1969, the Children and Young Persons Act 1969, the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973, the Guardianship Act 1973, the Children Act 1975, the Domestic Proceedings and Magistrates’ Courts Act 1978, the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978, the Child Care Act 1980, the Family Law Act 1986 and the Children Act 1989.
relevant person
has the meaning given by regulation 5;
remunerative work
has the meaning given by regulation 7;
rent
means eligible rent within the meaning of regulation 10(3) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987 (rent), less any deductions in respect of non-dependants which fall to be made under regulation 63 (non-dependant deductions) of those Regulations.
retirement annuity contract
means a contract or trust scheme approved under Chapter III of Part XIV of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;
sandwich course
has the meaning prescribed in paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 5 to the Education (Mandatory Awards) Regulations 1995;
short-term incapacity benefit
means short-term incapacity benefit under Part II of the 1992 Act;
single person
means a person who neither has a partner nor is a lone parent;
social fund payment
means a payment pursuant to Part VIII of the 1992 Act;
statutory maternity pay
means statutory maternity pay under Part XII of the 1992 Act;
statutory sick pay
means statutory sick pay under Part XI of the 1992 Act;
student
has the meaning given in regulation 41;
supplementary benefit
means a supplementary pension or allowance under section 1 or 4 of the Supplementary Benefits Act 1976;
the 1989 Act
means the Local Government and Housing Act 1989;
the 1992 Act
means the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992;
the Act
means the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996;
the Dispensing Instruments
means the Order in Council of 19th December 1881, the Royal Warrant of 27th October 1884 and the Order by His Majesty of 14th January 1922 (exceptional grants of pay, non-effective pay and allowances).
the Earnings Top-up Scheme
means the Earnings Top-up Scheme 1996;
the FEFC
means the Further Education Funding Council for England or the Further Education Funding Council for Wales;
the Fund
means moneys made available from time to time by the Secretary of State for the benefit of persons eligible for payment in accordance with the provisions of a scheme established by him on 24th April 1992, or, or in Scotland, on 10th April 1992;
the Independent Living (1993) Fund
means the Trust of that name established by a deed dated 25th February 1993 and made between the Secretary of State for Social Security of the one part and Robin Glover Wendt and John Fletcher Shepherd of the other part;
the Independent Living (Extension) Fund
means the Trust of that name established by a deed dated 25th February 1993 and made between the Secretary of State for Social Security of the one part and Robin Glover Wendt and John Fletcher Shepherd of the other part;
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;
the Independent Living Funds
means the Independent Living Fund, the Independent Living (Extension) Fund and the Independent Living (1993) Fund;
the MacFarlane (Special Payments) (No.2) Trust
means the trust of that name, established on 3rd May 1991, partly out of funds provided by the Secretary of State, for the benefit of certain persons suffering from haemophilia and other beneficiaries;
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;
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;
the McFarlane Trusts
means the MacFarlane Trust, the MacFarlane (Special Payments) Trust and the MacFarlane (Special Payments) (No. 2) Trust;
training allowance
has the meaning given by regulation 2(1) of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987;
unmarried couple
means a man and woman who are not married to each other but are living together as husband and wife;
voluntary organisation
has the meaning given by section 105(1) of the Children Act 1989;
water charges
means— (a) in relation to England and Wales, any water and sewerage charges under Chapter I of Part V of the Water Industry Act 1991;
year of assessment
has the meaning given by section 832(1) of the Income and Corporation Taxes Act 1988;
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 142 of the 1992 Act (meaning of child).