The Repairs Grants (Eligible Expense) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

Made: 2nd April 1996

Coming into operation: 1st May 1996

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 74(3) of, and paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 3 to, the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992[^f00001] and of every other power enabling it in that behalf hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1

• (1) This Order may be cited as the Repairs Grants (Eligible Expense) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996 and shall come into operation on 1st May 1996.

• (2) In this Order—

• “the Order” means the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992; and

• “owner” has the meaning assigned to it by Section 2 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878[^f00002].

Application

2

This Order applies to a repairs grant payable by the Executive[^f00003] towards the cost of works specified in a notice served in respect of a dwelling house under the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 where:—

• (a) the owner thereof (who also occupies it) makes an application for that grant in accordance with Schedule 3 to the Order; and

• (b) that notice is served;

on or after the coming into operation of this Order.

Specification of eligible expense

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Except where the Department approves a higher eligible expense, the eligible expense for the purpose of a repairs grant shall be so much of the sum determined under paragraph 3(1) of Schedule 3 to the Order as does not exceed £500.

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on .

C. D. Doake — Assistant Secretary — 2nd April 1996

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order).

Except where the Department approves a higher eligible expense, this Order specifies the maximum amount of eligible expense for the purposes of a repairs grant as £500 (formerly £5,500) in the case of grant applications made by owner-occupiers on or after 1st May 1996.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1992/1725 (N.I. 15); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

[^f00002]: 1878 c. 52

[^f00003]: See Article 2 of the Order and S.I. 1981/156 (N.I. 3) Article 2(2) for the definition of the Executive