The Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002

Welsh Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 837 (W.99)

HOUSING, WALES

The Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002

Made

26th March 2002

Coming into force

10th April 2002

The National Assembly for Wales in exercise of the powers conferred on it by sections 33 and 146 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996(1) makes the following Order:

Name, commencement and application

1.—(1) The name of this Order is the Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) (Amendment) (Wales) Order 2002 and it comes into force on 10th April 2002.

(2) This Order applies to Wales only.

Amendment of Order

2.  In paragraph (b) of article 2 of the Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) Order 1996(2) for “£24,000” substitute “£30,000”.

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(3)

Rhodri Morgan

First Minister of the National Assembly

26th March 2002

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends article 2 of the Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) Order 1996, which prescribes the maximum amount of mandatory disabled facilities grant that a local housing authority can be required to pay under Chapter I of Part I of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

This Order increases the maximum amount from £24,000 to £30,000 for dwellings or buildings in Wales.

(1)

1996 c. 53; the powers of the Secretary of State have been transferred to the National Assembly for Wales; see article 2 of and Schedule 1 to the National Assembly for Wales (Transfer of Functions) Order 1999 (S.I. 1999/672).

(2)

S.I. 1996/2888, amended by S.I. 2001/1275 (W.74).

(3)

1998 c. 38.