The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Transitional provisions: children and young persons

9.—(1) Where, in relation to an application for a grant,—

(a)a relevant person’s applicable amount includes a personal allowance in respect of one or more children or young persons who on 13th April 1997 are aged 11, 16 or 18, and

(b)the financial resources of the applicant or applicants fall to be assessed as at a relevant date as defined by paragraph (2),

the principal Regulations shall have effect as if the following were substituted for paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to those Regulations:—

“2.  The amounts set out in column (2) below in respect of each person referred to in column (1) shall be the amounts specified under paragraph (1) for the purposes of regulations 14(b) and 15(c)—

(2) A relevant date for the purposes of paragraph (1) means a date which—

(a)in a case where a relevant person’s applicable amount includes a personal allowance in respect of a child or young person who is aged 11 or 16 on 13th April 1997, falls within the period beginning on 14th April 1997 and ending on 31st August 1997;

(b)in a case where a relevant person’s applicable amount includes a personal allowance in respect of a young person who is aged 18 on 13th April 1997, falls within the period beginning on 14th April 1997 and ending on the day preceding the day on which that young person ceases to be a person of a prescribed description for the purposes of regulation 13 of the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations 1987(1).