Statutory Instrument 1998 No. 2998

The Home Repair Assistance (Extension) Regulations 1998

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(a) he has for that period a right to occupy and station the mobile home on land forming part of the same protected site within the meaning of Part I of the Caravan Sites Act 1968[2]; or

(b) he has an owner's interest in, or is a tenant of, the land on which the mobile home is stationed.

    (4) In this regulation "the Act" means the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996.

Amendment of the Home Repair Assistance Regulations 1996
     3. For paragraph 26 of Part III of Schedule 1 to the Home Repair Assistance Regulations 1996[3] (content of application for home repair assistance for mobile homes), substitute the following paragraph-

     " 26. Where the purpose of the works is not one specified in paragraph 5 or paragraph 14 of Part I, whether-


(a) the applicant has occupied the mobile home as his only or main residence for a period of at least three years immediately preceding the date of the application;

(b) the mobile home has for that period been on land forming part of the same protected site within the meaning of the Mobile Homes Act 1983;

(c) the applicant has for that period a right to occupy and station the mobile home on land forming part of the same protected site within the meaning of Part I of the Caravan Sites Act 1968;

(d) the applicant has an owner's interest in or is a tenant of the land on which the mobile home is stationed;

(e) the applicant has occupied the mobile home under an agreement to which the Mobile Homes Act 1983 applies or under a gratuitous licence.".

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State


Hilary Armstrong
Minister of State, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions

2nd December 1998


Jon Owen Jones
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, Welsh Office

3rd December 1998

[2] 1968 c. 52.back

[3] S.I. 1996/2887; to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.back