(1)These Regulations are called the Housing Renewal Grants (Prescribed Forms and Particulars) (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2001 and they come into force on 1st July 2001.
(2)These Regulations apply to Wales only and do not have effect in relation to applications for grant made before the date on which these Regulations come into force.
(1)The form set out in the Schedule to the Housing Renewal Grants (Prescribed Form and Particulars)(Welsh Form and Particulars) Regulations 1998 is amended in accordance with the Welsh language text of the Schedule to these Regulations.
(2)The form set out in the Schedule to the Housing Renewal Grants (Prescribed Form and Particulars) Regulations 1996 in so far as it applies to Wales is amended in accordance with the English language text of the Schedule to these Regulations.
(1)In question 3.31, insert in the appropriate place—“Payment from access funds (students) ££Note 86D(Please give details of what the payments are intended to cover, e.g. heating, meals)”
(2)In question 3.34, for “and 90B”, substitute “, 90B and 90C”.
(3)After question 3.34, insert—“3.34A Please give details of any payment made to you or your partner on or at any time after 1 February 2001 relating to imprisonment or internment by the Japanese during the Second World War. Note 90D”
(4)In question 3.38, insert—“”
(5)In note 59, after the words “child benefit purposes”, insert “, or who is in the care of a local authority and has been placed with you by the authority”.
(6)In note 85, after “(provision of financial assistance to students)”, insert—“;• a grant for school meals for dependent children, or for meals for dependent children aged 3 or 4, paid by virtue of regulations made under section 22 of the Teaching and Higher Education Act 1998.”
(7)After note 86C, insert—“86D You must include any payment from access funds intended to enable you as a student to meet ordinary living expenses - the cost of food, household fuel, rent, clothing, and footwear - water charges or the Council Tax. Access fund payments for these purposes are disregarded to the extent of £20 per week, but should be included in any case. You need not include any access fund payments that were for other purposes.”
(8)After note 90B, insert—“90C Please do not include—• any lump sum payment of subsistence allowance payable in respect of participation in an employment zone programme;• any payment in connection with a scheme to reduce under-occupation, made under regulation 11 of the Social Security (Payments to Reduce Under-occupation) Regulations 2000.90D Where an ex gratia payment of £10,000 has been made by the Secretary of State on or after 1 February 2001 in consequence of the imprisonment or internment by the Japanese in the Second World War of (a) you, (b) your partner, (c) a deceased spouse of yours, or (d) a deceased spouse of your partner, that sum will be disregarded as capital.”
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