Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
ENERGY CONSERVATION
Made
23rd March 2005
Coming into operation
25th April 2005
The Department for Social Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 17(1), (2), (3) and (4) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990(2), and now vested in it(3), and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, and with the consent of the Department of Finance and Personnel, hereby makes the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants (Amendment No. 4) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 25th April 2005.
2. The Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002(4) are amended in accordance with regulation 3.
3. In paragraph (2) of regulation 6, for the figure “£2,700” substitute “£3,700”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23rd March 2005.
L.S.
D. M. Crothers
A senior officer of the
Department for Social Development
The Department of Finance and Personnel hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 4th April 2005.
L.S.
C. Doran
A senior officer of the
Department of Finance and Personnel
(This note is not part of the Regulations.)
The Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2002 (“the 2002 Regulations”) enable the Department for Social Development to make or arrange for the making of grant for the improvement of energy efficiency in dwellings occupied by persons on low incomes with children, elderly persons on low incomes and persons in receipt of benefit relating to ill health or disability.
These Regulations amend the 2002 Regulations to increase the grant limit for a Warm Homes Plus grant to £3,700.
S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)
S.I. 1990/1511 (N.I. 15) Article 17 was amended by S.I. 1996/2879 (N.I. 21), Article 3
See S.R. 1997 No. 391 and S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 6 (e) and Schedule 4 Part V
S.R. 2002 No. 56 relevant amending Regulations are S.R. 2003 No. 385 and S.R. 2003 No. 503