Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 407

HOUSING

The Service of Certain Documents (Prescribed Body) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

27th September 2004

Coming into operation

1st November 2004

The Department for Social Development(1), in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 104(2) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(2), and now exercisable by it(3), 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 Service of Certain Documents (Prescribed Body) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st November 2004.

Prescribed Body

2. The Department hereby prescribes a registered housing association as a prescribed body for the purposes of Article 104 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 27th September 2004.

L.S.

D. M. Crothers

A senior officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

Article 104(2) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992 (Service of Certain Documents) makes provision for the Department to prescribe a body which may serve certain documents by ordinary post. These Regulations prescribe a registered housing association as a prescribed body.

(1)

S.I. 1999/283 (N.I. 1) Article 3(1)

(2)

S.I. 1992/1725 (N.I. 15); Article 104 was amended by Article 145(b) of S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2); see Article 2(2) for the definition of “prescribe”

(3)

S.R. 1999 No. 481, Article 6(e) and Schedule 4 Part V