PART IIIUNFITNESS AND DISREPAIR

Repairs grants

Repairs grants29

1

Article 74 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (NI 15) (repairs grants towards costs of meeting certain statutory repairing obligations in respect of dwelling-houses), shall be amended as follows.

2

In paragraph (1), for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted–

a

in a notice of disrepair served in respect of a dwelling-house which is let under a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy; or

3

After that paragraph there shall be inserted–

1A

In paragraph (1)–

a

“notice of disrepair” means a notice under Article 19 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006; and

b

“protected tenancy” and “statutory tenancy” have the meaning given in the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.

4

In paragraph (2), the words from “to whom” to “may be,” shall be omitted.

5

In Schedule 3 to the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (provisions with respect to repairs grants), in sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 2, for the words from “the repairing conditions” to “1978” there shall be substituted “ the works specified in the notice of disrepair served under Article 19 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 in relation to the dwelling-house ”.

6

The amendments made by this Article apply to a repairs grant payable under Article 74 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 towards the cost of works specified in a notice of disrepair served under Article 19 after the commencement of this Order.