The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2000

Made: 29th March 2000

Coming into force: 1st April 2000

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 191 and 192 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987[^f00001] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has in accordance with section 191(9) of that Act, been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

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• (1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000.

• (2) In this Order–

• (a) “the number of houses of the authority” means the estimate of the number of houses to which the housing revenue account of the authority, at 30th September 2000, relates; and

• (b) any reference to any type of expenditure, charge or income which is estimated is a reference to such an estimate made by the Scottish Ministers.

Aggregate amount of grants for 2000-2001

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The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2000-2001 shall be £9,612,887.

Apportionment of grants for 2000-2001

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• (1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2000-2001 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.

• (2) The general portion shall amount to £6,248,861 and shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 1 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 2000-2001 assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.

• (3) The hostel portion shall amount to £3,364,026 and shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 3 to this Order, according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 2000-2001 on those buildings specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (which provides for lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).

SCHEDULE 1 — LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF GENERAL PORTION FOR 2000-2001

Councils

• Comhairle nan Eilean Siar

• Shetland Islands

SCHEDULE 2 — ASSESSMENT OF ESTIMATED NET EXPENDITURE OF SCHEDULE 1 LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 2000-2001 FOR APPORTIONMENT OF GENERAL PORTION

The estimated net expenditure of a local authority listed in Schedule 1 to this Order for the purposes of apportionment of the general portion shall be the amount arrived at by addition of the amounts specified in items 1 to 5 below less the amounts specified in items 6 and 7 below.

Expenditure

1

Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 2000-2001 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses.

2

For supervision and management–

• (a) £219.75 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and

• (b) for authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 3,000 a supplementary amount of £87.90 per house.

3

For repairs and maintenance, £613.02 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

4

Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.

5

Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

Income

6

£2215.64 multiplied by the number of the authority’s houses other than houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less.

7

Estimated income other than rental income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

SCHEDULE 3 — LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF HOSTEL PORTION FOR 2000-2001

Councils

• Aberdeen City

• Aberdeenshire

• Angus

• Argyll and Bute

• Dundee City

• East Ayrshire

• City of Edinburgh

• Falkirk

• Fife

• City of Glasgow

• Highland

• Inverclyde

• Moray

• North Ayrshire

• Perth and Kinross

• Renfrewshire

• Shetland Islands

• South Ayrshire

• South Lanarkshire

• Stirling

Signed

FRANK McAVEETY — Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers — 29th March 2000

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order fixes for the year 2000-2001 the aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable to some local authorities under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; lists the councils among whom the grants will be apportioned; and prescribes the method of apportionment among those councils of the general and hostel portions of the aggregate amount.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1987 c. 26; sections 191(10) and 192(6) were amended by the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43), Schedule 8, paragraphs 4 and 5 respectively. The functions of the Secretary of State were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46).