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Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland
Energy Conservation
Made
3rd June 2021
Coming into operation
1st July 2021
The Department for Communities makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 17 of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990(1) and now vested in it(2).
The Department of Finance has consented to the making of the Regulations in accordance with Article 17(8) of the Social Security (Northern Ireland) Order 1990.
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 and shall come into operation on 1st July 2021.
(2) In these Regulations “the principal Regulations” means the Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2009(3).
2. The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulation 3.
3. In Regulation 5 (persons to whom a grant may be made)(4) in paragraph (2B)(5), for “£20,000” substitute “£23,000”.
4.—(1) Regulation 5 (persons to whom a grant may be made) of the principal Regulations, as that regulation had effect immediately before the relevant date, shall continue to apply to an Affordable Warmth Grant made before the relevant date.
(2) In paragraph (1) the relevant date means the date of coming into operation of these Regulations.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Communities on 3rd June 2021
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations enable the Department for Communities to increase the income threshold for the making of grant for the improvement of energy efficiency in private sector dwellings occupied by persons on low incomes.
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, S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 6(e) and Schedule 4, Part IV and S.R. 2016 No. 76
S.R. 2009 No. 195; relevant amendments are S.R. 2014 No. 52 and S.R. 2016 No. 333
Regulation 5 was amended by Regulation 5 of S.R. 2014 No. 52 and Regulation 6 of S.R. 2016 No. 333
Regulation 5(2B) was inserted by Regulation 6 of S.R. 2016 No. 333
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