(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Housing Grants (Assessment of Contributions) (Scotland) Regulations 2003 (S.S.I. 2003/461) (“the principal regulations”) which provide a means of assessment of an applicant’s contribution to the cost of works for which improvement grants, repair grants and grants for a means of escape from fire for a house in multiple occupation may be given by a local authority.
The amendments made by these Regulations apply the principal regulations where an application for costs of work to make a house suitable for the accommodation, welfare or employment of a disabled occupant is made on behalf of the disabled occupant. Where an application is made on behalf of a disabled occupant it is the total applicable income of the disabled occupant that is taken into account in the assessment of an applicant’s contribution to the cost of works and not such income of the person who made the application on that disabled occupant’s behalf.