The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In this Order—

“the 1987 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;

“appropriate local authority” means a local authority whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been taken into account in estimating the aggregate amounts of eligible expenditure and relevant income for the purpose of fixing the aggregate amount of housing support grants, each such authority being specified in Schedule 1; and

“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 1991 relates.

(3) Except where the context otherwise requires—

(a) any reference to a numbered article or Schedule is a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order; 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 Secretary of State.

Aggregate grant for 1991-92

2.  The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for 1991-92 shall be £55,435,945.

Apportionment of aggregate grant for 1991-92

3.—(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1991-92 shall be divided into two portions hereinafter referred to as the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.

(2) The general portion shall amount to £54,010,631 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities in proportion to their estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided in Schedule 2.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £1,425,314 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities specified in Schedule 3 in proportion to their estimated net expenditures for the year 1991-92 in relation to those buildings specified in paragraph 1(e) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (which specifies lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

2nd February 1991

We consent,

Sydney Chapman

I. C. Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th February 1991