The Homes Insulation Grants Order 1988

Made: 18th July 1988

Laid before the House of Commons: 25th July 1988

Coming into force: 15th August 1988

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of their powers under section 521(3) and (5) of the Housing Act 1985[^f00001], and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of his powers under section 252(3) and (5) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987[^f00002], and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and with the approval of the Treasury, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Homes Insulation Grants Order 1988 and shall come into force on 15th August 1988.

Prescribed amount

2

For the purposes of the Homes Insulation Scheme 1987 as amended, £144 is prescribed as the money sum payable as grant.

Signed

Nicholas Ridley — Secretary of State for the Environment — 14th July 1988

Peter Walker — Secretary of State for Wales — 14th July 1988

Malcolm Rifkind — Secretary of State for Scotland — 14th July 1988

We approve,

Michael Neubert — Mark Lennox-Boyd — Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury — 18th July 1988

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order specifies the amount of £144 (instead of the amount of £137 provided by S.I. 1987/2185) as the maximum money sum available by way of grant under the Homes Insulation Scheme 1987 as amended.

Under section 521(3) of the Housing Act 1985, and section 252(3) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, the grant payable is the prescribed percentage of the cost of the qualifying works or the prescribed money sum, whichever is the less.

The Homes Insulation Scheme 1987 was published in a joint Circular from the Department of the Environment (Circular 29/87) and the Welsh Office (Circular 55/87); copies of which are available from HMSO. It is also published in a Circular from the Scottish Development Department (Circular 25/87), copies of which are available from the Department at St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh EH1 3DD. The Scheme is amended by the Homes Insulation Scheme 1987 Amendment 1988. The Amendment is published in a joint Circular from the Department of the Environment (Circular 17/88) and the Welsh Office (Circular 27/88) and in a Circular from the Scottish Development Department (Circular 15/88); copies of these are similarly available.

The prescribed percentage of the cost of the qualifying works continues to be 90% in accordance with S.I. 1987/2185.

The 1987 Scheme as amended includes transitional provisions which cover the variation of the prescribed money sum made by this Order.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1985 c. 68.

[^f00002]: 1987 c. 26.