The Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (Consequential Amendments) Regulations 2016

Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (c. 53)

152.  Section 100 of the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 (disabled persons) is amended as follows—

(a) in subsection (2), for paragraphs (a) and (b) substitute—

“(a) the person is registered in a register maintained under section 18(5) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014 (register of disabled adults and adults with an impairment or who have needs for care and support), or

(b) in the opinion of the social services authority, the person falls within a category mentioned in section 18(6) of that Act.”;

(b) after subsection (3)(b) insert—

“(c) the person is registered as disabled in a register maintained under section 18(4) of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014, or

(d) the person is, in the opinion of the social services authority, disabled as defined for the purposes of section 3 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014.”;

(c) for subsection (4) substitute the following—

“(4) In this Part “social services authority” means—

(a) in England, the council which is the local authority for the purposes of the Local Authority Social Services Act 1970, and

(b) in Wales, the council which is the local authority for the purposes of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014,

for the area in which the dwelling or building is situated.”;

(d) in subsection (5)(1)—

(i) omit “section 29(1) of the National Assistance Act 1948 or”;

(ii) after “section 17(11) of the Children Act 1989” insert “or section 3 of the Social Services and Well-being (Wales) Act 2014”.

(1)

Section 100(5) was amended by S.I. 2015/914, Schedule, paragraph 57(1), (3)(b).