The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996

Definition of non-dependant

6.—(1) In these Regulations, “non-dependant” means any person, except someone to whom paragraph (2) applies, who normally resides with a relevant person or with whom a relevant person normally resides.

(2) This paragraph applies to—

(a) any member of the relevant person’s family;

(b) if the relevant person is polygamously married, any partner of his and any child or young person who is a member of his household and for hom he or one of his partners is responsible;

(c) a child or young person who is living with the relevant person but who is not a member of his household by virtue of regulation 9 (membership of the same household);

(d) subject to paragraph (3), a person who jointly occupies the relevant person’s dwelling and is either a co-owner of that dwelling with the relevant person or his partner (whether or not there are other co-owners) or is liable with the relevant person or his partner to make payments in respect of his occupation of the dwelling;

(e) subject to paragraph (3)—

(i) any person who is liable to make payments on a commercial basis to the relevant person or the relevant person’s partner in respect of the occupation of the dwelling,

(ii) any person to whom or to whose partner the relevant person or the relevant person’s partner is liable to make payments on a commercial basis in respect of the occupation of the dwelling, or

(iii) any other member of the household of the person to whom or to whose partner the relevant person or the relevant person’s partner is liable to make payments on a commercial basis in respect of the occupation of the dwelling;

(f) a person who lives with the relevant person in order to care for him or a partner of his and who is engaged by a charitable or voluntary organisation which makes a charge to the relevant person or his partner for the services provided by that person.

(3) Excepting persons to whom sub-paragraphs (a) to (c) and (f) of paragraph (2) refer, a person shall be a non-dependant if he resides with a relevant person to whom he is liable to make payments in respect of the dwelling and either—

(a) that relevant person is a close relative of his or his partner, or

(b) the tenancy or other agreement between them is other than on a commercial basis.

(4) For the purposes of this regulation—

(a) a person resides with another only if they share any accommodation except a bathroom, a lavatory or a communal area but not if each person is separately liable to make payments in respect of his occupation of the dwelling to the landlord;

(b) “communal area” means an area, other than a room or rooms, of common access (including halls and passageways).