Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

60.—(1) Any payment of a sports award except to the extent that it has been made in respect of any one or more of the items specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) The items specified for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) are food, ordinary clothing or footwear or household fuel of the relevant person or where the relevant person is a member of a family, any other member of his family, or any eligible rates or rent to which regulation 9 or 10 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987(1) refers for which that relevant person or member is liable.

(3) For the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) –

(a) “food” does not include vitamins, minerals or other special dietary supplements intended to enhance the performance of the person in the sport in respect of which the award was made;

(b) “ordinary clothing and footwear” means clothing or footwear for normal daily use but does not include school uniforms or clothing or footwear used solely for sporting activities;

(c) “rates or rent” means eligible rates or rent to which regulations 9 or 10 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland)1987 refer less any deductions in respect of non-dependants which fall to be made under regulation 63(2) of those Regulations.

(1)

S.R. 1987 No. 461; the relevant amending regulations are S.R. 1988 No. 424, S.R. 1990 Nos. 297 and 442, S.R. 1993 Nos. 145 and 149 and S.R. 1996 No. 111

(2)

Regulation 63 was amended by S.R. 1989 No. 125, S.R. 1990 Nos. 136 and 345, S.R. 1992 Nos. 85, 404 and 549, S.R. 1993 Nos. 145, 195 and 233, S.R. 1996 No. 334, S.R. 1997 Nos. 3 and 113, S.R. 1998 No. 81 and S.R. 2000 No. 38