Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 312

LAND ACQUISITION AND COMPENSATION

Home Loss Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

29th July 2004

Coming into operation

31st August 2004

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred upon it by Article 31(5) of the Land Acquisition and Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf hereby makes the following regulations:

Citation and commencement

1. These regulations may be cited as the Home Loss Payments Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 31st August 2004.

Increase of prescribed amounts

2.—(1) For the purposes of Article 31(1) of the Land Acquisition and Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973 (amount of home loss payment) –

(a)the prescribed maximum amount of home loss payment shall be £45,000; and

(b)the prescribed minimum amount of home loss payment shall be £4,500.

(2) For the purposes of Article 31(2) of the Land Acquisition and Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973, the prescribed amount of home loss payment shall be £4,500.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 29th July 2004.

L.S.

David Ferguson

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations increase the amount of home loss payments which may be payable under the Land Acquisition and Compensation (Northern Ireland) Order 1973. A person is entitled to a home loss payment when he is displaced from a dwelling by compulsory purchase or in the other circumstances specified in Article 30 of the Order.

Regulation 2(1) deals with cases where the person displaced has an owner’s interest (or is treated as having such an interest). It increases the maximum amount of a home loss payment from £15,000 to £45,000 and the minimum amount from £1,500 to £4,500.

Regulation 2(2) increases the amount of home loss payment in other cases from £1,500 to £4,500.

(1)

S.I. 1973/1896 (N.I. 21); Article 31 was substituted by Article 5 of the Home Loss Payments (Northern Ireland) Order 1992, (S.I. 1992/1307 (N.I. 8))