2011 No. 350
Energy Conservation

The Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011

Made
Laid before the Scottish Parliament
Coming into force
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 15(2)(c) of the Social Security Act 19901 and all other powers enabling them to do so.

Citation and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2011 and come into force on 30th November 2011.

Amendments to the Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 20092.

After regulation 6(3) of the Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 20092 insert—

“(3A)

The criteria are that the person—

(a)

is or lives with a partner who is in receipt of carer’s allowance under section 70 of the 1992 Act3; and

(b)

lives in an energy inefficient dwelling.”

ALEX NEIL
A member of the Scottish Executive

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Home Energy Assistance Scheme (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (“the principal Regulations”) which make provision for the making of grants to improve the thermal insulation and energy efficiency of dwellings and to provide advice to reduce or prevent the wastage of energy in a dwelling.

Regulation 2 amends regulation 6 of the principal Regulations to extend eligibility to applicants who are, or who live with a partner who is, in receipt of carer’s allowance. Carer’s allowance is payable under section 70 of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992 (c.4) to persons who are engaged in caring for a severely disabled person, subject to certain conditions set out in that section and in the Social Security (Invalid Care Allowance) Regulations 1976, as amended (S.I. 1976/409).