These Regulations amend the Housing Renewal Grants (Reduction of Grant) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 (“the 2004 Regulations”) which set out the means test for determining the amount of renovation grant, disabled facilities grant and replacement grant which may be paid by the Housing Executive to owner–occupier and tenant applicants under Chapter II of Part III of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003. The amendments are mostly consequential on changes to the Housing Benefit (General) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1987 (S.R. 1987 No. 461), upon which the means test in the 2004 Regulations is based. The main changes of this nature are as follows—
↧