The Housing Renewal Grants Regulations 1996

22.—(1) Any payment made to the relevant person in respect of a person who is a member of his family—

(a) in accordance with regulations made pursuant to section 57A of the Adoption Act 1976(1) (permitted allowances) or with a scheme approved by the Secretary of State under section 51 of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978(2) (schemes for payments of allowances to adopters);

(b) which is a payment made by a local authority in pursuance of section 15(1) of, and paragraph 15 of Schedule 1 to, the Children Act 1989(3) (local authority contribution to a child’s maintenance where the child is living with a person as a result of a residence order) or, as the case may be, section 50 of the Children Act 1975(4) (payment towards maintenance of children);

to the extent specified in sub-paragraph (2).

(2) In the case of a child or young person—

(a) to whom regulation 32(2) (capital in excess of £5,000) applies, the whole payment;

(b) to whom that regulation does not apply, so much of the weekly amount of the payment as exceeds the amount included under Schedule 1 in the determination of the relevant person’s applicable amount for that child or young person by way of the personal allowance and disabled child premium, if any.

(1)

1976 c. 36; section 57A was inserted by paragraph 25 of Schedule 10 to the Children Act 1989.

(2)

1978 c. 28.

(3)

1989 c. 41; section 15(1) was amended by the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 (c. 41), section 116 and Schedule 16.

(4)

1975 c. 72.