2024 No. 754 (W. 106)
The Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024
Made
Laid before Senedd Cymru
Coming into force
Title, coming into force and application1
1
The title of these Regulations is the Housing Renewal Grants (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2024 and they come into force on 1 August 2024.
2
These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
Amendments to the Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 19962
1
The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 19963 are amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) to (5).
2
In regulation 2(1) (interpretation), in the definition of “self-employment route”, in paragraph (b)(ii)4, for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “the Welsh Ministers or the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research”
.
3
In regulation 41 (interpretation)—
a
in the definition of “access funds”5—
i
for paragraph (a) substitute—
a
grants made under section 85 of the Tertiary Education and Research (Wales) Act 2022 for the purposes of providing funds on a discretionary basis to be paid to students;
ii
for paragraph (d) substitute—
d
discretionary payments made from funds known as “Financial Contingency Funds” paid to students by the Welsh Ministers under section 14 of the Education Act 2002;
b
in the definition of “full-time course of study”6—
i
in paragraph (a), for “or by the National Assembly for Wales” substitute “, by the Welsh Ministers or by the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research,”
;
ii
in paragraph (b), for “or by the National Assembly for Wales” substitute “, by the Welsh Ministers or by the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research”
;
iii
in paragraph (b)(ii)—
aa
for “National Assembly for Wales” substitute “Welsh Ministers or by the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research”
;
bb
for “that Council” substitute “the Welsh Ministers or the Commission for Tertiary Education and Research”
.
4
In regulation 43 (determination of grant income), omit paragraph (3A)7.
5
In regulation 46 (treatment of student loans)—
a
in paragraph (1)8, omit “unless it is a hardship loan, in which case it shall be disregarded”;
b
omit paragraph (1A)9;
c
in paragraph (2)(aa)10, for “regulation 2 of the Education (Student Support) Regulations 2002” substitute “Schedule 7 to the Education (Student Support) (Wales) Regulations 2018”
.
(This note is not part of the Regulations)