The Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009

• Citation: S.I. 2009/1816
• Sections: 4

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2009 and come into force on 1st August 2009.

(2) These Regulations apply to England only.

Section 2 Interpretation

In these Regulations—

“administering agency” has the same meaning as in the principal Regulations ;

“the principal Regulations” means the Home Energy Efficiency Scheme (England) Regulations 2005 ;

“works application” has the same meaning as in the principal Regulations.

Section 3 Amendment of the principal Regulations

(1) The principal Regulations are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 4(1)(e) (persons who may apply for a grant), substitute “£16,040” for “£15,460”.

(3) In regulation 6 (grant maximum)—

(a) in paragraph (a) substitute “£3,500” for “£2,700”; and

(b) in paragraph (b)—

(i) after “oil fired central heating,” insert “or is for one or more of the purposes listed in regulation 5(1)(m),”; and

(ii) substitute “£6,000” for “£4,000”.

Section 4 Transitional provision

(1) Regulation 4 of the principal Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, applies in relation to a works application made before 1st August 2009 where the decision to approve or reject that application falls to be made by the administering agency on or after that date.

(2) Regulation 6 of the principal Regulations, as amended by these Regulations, applies in relation to a works application made before 1st August 2009 where either—

(a) the decision to approve or reject that application falls to be made by the administering agency on or after that date; or

(b) the decision to approve that application was made by the administering agency before, but the works to which the approval relates have not been commenced by, that date.