The Disabled Facilities Grants (Maximum Amounts and Additional Purposes) (Wales) Order 2008

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order (which applies in relation to Wales) prescribes the maximum amount of mandatory disabled facilities grant that a local housing authority can be required to pay under Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (“the Act”). By article 2, the maximum amount is £36,000.

Section 23(1) of the Act specifies the purposes for which, subject to the provisions of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Act, an application for a grant must be approved. Article 3 of this Order specifies additional purposes for which an application for a grant must be approved, subject to the provisions of Chapter 1 of Part 1 of the Act being satisfied. The specified purposes are for facilitating access by the disabled occupant to and from a garden (which is defined in article 3(3)), and for making the access to a garden safe for the disabled occupant.

Articles 2 and 3 of the Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts Order) 1996, which apply to England and Wales, set the maximum amount of mandatory disabled facilities grant at £30,000 in relation to Wales. Article 4 of this Order provides for those articles to cease to have effect in relation to Wales.