487Special grants not within s. 486 are discretionary.
(1)To the extent that the application does not fall within section 486 (mandatory grants for works required by notice under Part XI) the local housing authority may approve an application for a special grant in such circumstances as they think fit.
(2)Subsection (1) has effect subject to the following provisions (which restrict the cases in which applications may be approved)—
section 463(2) (person who proposes to acquire but has not yet acquired an owner’s interest),
section 465 (works already begun), and
section 485 (standard of repair to be attained).