The Domestic Energy Efficiency Grants (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021
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.
Citation, commencement and interpretation
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)
Amendments to the principal Regulations
2.
The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulation 3.
3.
Savings Provisions
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
The Department of Finance consents to the Regulations
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance on 3rd June 2021
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.