
2024 No. 339 (W. 63)
Energy Conservation, Wales
The Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024
Made 8 March 2024
Laid before Senedd Cymru 11 March 2024
Coming into force 1 April 2024
The Welsh Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by section 15(1) of the Social Security Act 1990.
Title and coming into force
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(1) The title of these Regulations is the Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.
(2) These Regulations come into force on 1 April 2024.
Interpretation
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In these Regulations, “the principal Regulations” (“y prif Reoliadau”) means the Home Energy Efficiency Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2011.
Amendment to the principal Regulations
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The principal Regulations are amended in accordance with regulations 4 to 6.
Amendment of regulation 2 (interpretation)
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In regulation 2—
(a) at the appropriate place in alphabetical order, insert—“
 “health eligibility criteria” (“meini prawf cymhwystra iechyd”) means a person living with a chronic respiratory, circulatory or mental health condition;”
 “households below average income report” (“adroddiad aelwydydd islaw’r incwm cyfartalog”) means the data published from time to time by the Secretary of State on household and individual incomes under section 4 of the Welfare Reform and Work Act 2016.
 “lower income household” (“aelwyd incwm is”) means a household with a net income, excluding any income from disability related benefits or payments, that is less than 60% of the median equivalised net household income before housing costs based on the most recent published data in the households below average income report;”;
(b) in the definition of “means-tested benefit”—
(i) in paragraph (e), at the end omit “and”;
(ii) in paragraph (f), at the end insert “and”;
(iii) after paragraph (f), insert—“
(g) income-based jobseeker’s allowance (as defined in section 1(4) of the Jobseekers Act 1995);”.
Amendment of regulation 5 (eligibility criteria)
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In regulation 5—
(a) in paragraph (2)—
(i) for sub-paragraph (b) substitute—“
(b) the applicant is an occupant of the dwelling and is—
(i) in receipt of a means-tested benefit, or
(ii) from a lower income household; and”;
(ii) for sub-paragraph (c) substitute—“
(c) the area agency is satisfied that the asset rating of the dwelling is—
(i) 54 or less, or
(ii) 68 or less where the applicant or an occupant of the dwelling fulfils the health eligibility criteria.”;
(b) omit paragraph (3A).
Amendment of regulation 9 (conditions of grant)
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In regulation 9(1)(a)(ii), for “paragraph (2)(a) of this Regulation” substitute “sub-paragraph (i)”.
Transitional provisions
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The principal Regulations as in force immediately before 1 April 2024 continue to apply on and after that date in respect of a works application made but not yet determined before that date and in relation to a works application made and approved before that date.
Julie James
Minister for Climate Change, one of the Welsh Ministers
8 March 2024