The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996

Definition of relevant person

5.—(1) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), in respect of any one application, other than an application for a disabled facilities grant, a relevant person is any person who—

(a) is an applicant, or

(b) is not an applicant but is entitled to make the application and lives or intends to live in the dwelling or, as the case may be, a flat in the building.

(2) Subject to paragraphs (3) and (4), in respect of any one application for a disabled facilities grant a relevant person is any person who—

(a) is the disabled occupant, or one of the disabled occupants, of the dwelling or the flat in the building;

(b) is the partner, or a partner, of the disabled occupant or of one of the disabled occupants;

(c) where the disabled occupant or any of the disabled occupants is aged less than 18, is responsible for him within the meaning of regulation 8 (circumstances in which a person is to be treated as responsible or not responsible for another).

(3) Where sub-paragraph (a) or (b) of paragraph (1), or any of sub-paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of paragraph (2), applies to both members of a couple or to more than one member of a polygamous marriage, one member only of that couple or of that polygamous marriage shall be a relevant person in respect of that application.

(4) A young person shall not be a relevant person except where he is the only applicant.