The Relocation Grants (Form of Application) (Amendment No. 2) (England) Regulations 2001

Statutory Instruments

2001 No. 2385

HOUSING, ENGLAND

The Relocation Grants (Form of Application) (Amendment No. 2) (England) Regulations 2001

Made

4th July 2001

Coming into force

27th July 2001

The Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, in exercise of the powers conferred upon him by sections 132(3) and (4)(1) and 146(1) and (2) of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996(2) hereby makes the following Regulations:

Citation, commencement and extent

1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Relocation Grants (Form of Application) (Amendment No. 2) (England) Regulations 2001 and shall come into force on 27th July 2001.

(2) These Regulations extend to England only.

Amendments

2.—(1) In the Form set out in the Schedule to the Relocation Grants (Form of Application) Regulations 1996(3)—

(2) after question 4.34A(4), insert—

“4.34B   Please give details of any vCJD trust payment made to you, your partner or a member of your family or any payment made to you, your partner or a member of your family by another person or from another person’s estate which was made from a vCJD trust payment received by that other person. Note 50E”;

(3) after note 50D, insert—

“50E.   A vCJD trust payment is a payment made, from trusts set up by the Department of Health, to those who contracted variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (vCJD) and their immediate families.

• For the purpose of deciding whether someone is a member of your family, “family” means:

  (a)

  a married or unmarried couple;

  (b)

  a married or unmarried couple and a member of the same household for whom one of them is or both are responsible and who is a child or a young person;

  (c)

  a person who is not a member of a married or unmarried couple and a member of the same household for whom that person is responsible and who is a child or young person.

• A payment made to the victim of vCJD or the victim’s partner or surviving partner is disregarded for that person’s lifetime.

• A payment made to the parent of a vCJD victim, regardless of the age of the victim, or to a person who is or was acting in the place of a parent of a dependent child victim, is disregarded for 2 years from the date the payment was made to them.

• Payments made to dependent children or young persons are disregarded for the period from the date of payment until the day before they leave full time education or the day before their 19th birthday or for 2 years from the date of payment, whichever is the latest date.”

Application

3.  The amendments made by these Regulations shall not have effect in relation to applications for grant made before the date on which these Regulations come into force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

Lord Falconer of Thoroton QC

Minister of State,

Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions

4th July 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Form set out in the Schedule to the Relocation Grants (Form of Application) Regulations 1997, to be used for an application for a relocation grant under sections 131 to 140 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

The Relocation Grants Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2764), apply the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/2890) as they have effect from time to time, with the modifications prescribed. Amendments to the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996 by the Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment No. 2) (England) Regulations 2001 (S.I. 2001/2384) have accordingly necessitated amendments to the Relocation Grants (Form of Application) Regulations 1997, and these Regulations make the necessary amendments.

(1)

See the definition of “prescribed” in section 140(1).

(2)

1996 c. 53; the Secretary of State can exercise the power under these sections only in relation to England; see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(3)

S.I. 1997/2847, amended by S.I. 1998/810, 1999/1541, 1999/2625, 2000/720 and 2001/780.

(4)

Question 4.34A was inserted by S.I. 2001/780.