2. In Schedule 3 to the Income Support (General) Regulations 1987(1) (housing costs)—
(a)in sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 8, for the words preceding the words “(b) paying off”, there shall be substituted the words—
“8.—(1) Subject to paragraph 7A, there shall be met under this paragraph interest payable on any loan which is taken out, with or without security, for the purpose of—
(a)repairs and improvements to which paragraph 1(b) refers; or”;
(b)in sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 8, after the words “dwelling occupied as the home”, in each place in which they occur, there shall be inserted the words “or where the dwelling forms part of a building any part of the building containing that dwelling”; and
(c)in sub-paragraph (2) of paragraph 9, for head (c) there shall be substituted the following head—
“(c)any amount for repairs and improvements, and for this purpose the expression “repairs and improvements” has the same meaning it has in paragraph 8(3).”.