The Relocation Grants Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This is not part of the Regulations)

Regulation 2 prescribes as a condition for the payment of relocation grant that the dwelling which the applicant proposes to acquire with the aid of grant is reasonably suitable having regard to his housing needs or those of the member of his family who intends to live in the dwelling.

Regulation 3 prescribes £20,000 as the maximum amount of a relocation grant.

Regulation 4 prescribes as the part of the amount paid by the local housing authority in respect of the acquisition of the applicant’s interest in the original dwelling to be taken into account for the purposes of section 134(3)(b) of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 the aggregate of any amount payable pursuant to section 290 of the Housing Act 1985 or section 154 of the Town and Country Planning Act 1.990 and any amount payable under section 29 of the Land Compensation Act 1973.

Regulation 5 applies the means test in the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 to the calculation of the amount of a relocation grant, subject to the modifications set out in regulation 6.

Regulation 6 modifies the means test contained in the 1996 Regulations by omitting regulations 3 (persons from abroad) and 4 (landlords applications: power for local housing authorities to obtain information from pension fund holders), by amending regulation 40(1) (determination of tariff income from capital) and by amending Schedule 4 (capital to be disregarded) as well as making other, minor drafting changes.