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[^f00001] makes the following Order:

Name, commencement and application

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• (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

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In paragraph (b) of article 2 of the Disabled Facilities Grants and Home Repair Assistance (Maximum Amounts) Order 1996[^f00002] for “£24,000” substitute “£30,000”.

Signed

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[^f00003]

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.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 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).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1996/2888, amended by S.I. 2001/1275 (W.74).

[^f00003]: 1998 c. 38.