The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992

Payment of balance of costs in case of certain disposals

68.—(1) When the external works specified in a group repair scheme are completed, the Executive shall, for the purposes of this Article, send to each assisted participant a certificate specifying the date on which the works were completed to its satisfaction; and in paragraph (2) that date is referred to as “the completion date”.

(2) It shall be a condition of participation in a group repair scheme as an assisted participant that if, before the expiry of the period of 3 years beginning with the completion date, the assisted participant makes a relevant disposal (other than an exempt disposal) of the dwelling or other premises in which he had an owner’s interest at the date of the approval of the scheme, then, subject to paragraph (8), he shall pay to the Executive on demand the outstanding balance determined in accordance with paragraphs (5) and (6) or such lesser amount, being not less than one-third of that outstanding balance, as the Executive may specify in the demand.

(3) A condition under paragraph (2)—

(a) shall be included among the matters required to be registered in the Statutory Charges Register; and

(b) subject to paragraph (8), shall remain in force with respect to the dwelling for a period of 3 years from the completion date.

(4) So long as a condition under paragraph (2) remains in force with respect to a dwelling it shall be binding on any person who is for the time being the owner of the dwelling.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), in the case of any assisted participant, the outstanding balance referred to in paragraph (2) is the difference between—

(a) the cost, as notified to him under the scheme, of such of the external works specified in the scheme as relate to the house or other premises in which his owner’s interest subsisted; and

(b) the amount of the contribution in respect of that cost paid by him by virtue of Article 67.

(6) If, in the case of any assisted participant, the cost of the external works relating to the house in which he had an owner’s interest falls to be apportioned as mentioned in paragraph (2) of Article 67, the reference in paragraph (5) to the cost of the works relating to the house shall be construed as a reference to that part of the cost which is apportioned to the part of the house in which his owner’s interest subsisted.

(7) Article 62 applies for the purposes of this Article as it applies for the purposes of Articles 58 to 61, except that for any reference in that Article to the dwelling there shall be substituted a reference to the house (or part of a house) or other premises in which the assisted participant had an owner’s interest.

(8) The duty of an assisted participant under paragraph (2) shall cease to apply if he makes such a disposal as is mentioned in that paragraph either for no consideration or for consideration of an amount less than that either prescribed, or calculated in accordance with a formula prescribed by regulations made by the Department.

(9) In paragraphs (5) to (7) “house” shall be construed in accordance with Article 67(2).