1988 No. 820
HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES
The Housing Defects (Expenditure Limits) Order 1988
Made 3rd May 1988
Laid before the House of Commons 10th May 1988
Coming into force 31st May 1988

The Secretary of State for the Environment, in relation to England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, in relation to Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by section 543(4) and (5) of the Housing Act 1985 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:—
1985 c. 68.

1 Citation and commencement
This Order may be cited as the Housing Defects (Expenditure Limits) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 31st May 1988.

2 Expenditure limits
The amount opposite each category of dwelling mentioned in the first column of the Schedule to this Order is hereby specified as the expenditure limit for that category for the purposes of section 543 of the Housing Act 1985.

3 Revocation
The Housing Defects (Expenditure Limits) Order 1986 is hereby revoked.
S.I. 1986/1494.
Nicholas Ridley Secretary of State for the Environment 3rd May 1988
Peter Walker Secretary of State for Wales 3rd May 1988

SCHEDULE EXPENDITURE LIMITS
Category of Dwelling	Amount
A Dwellings in, or consisting of, single storey buildings in a class designated by:— (1) The Housing Defects (Dorran Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (2) The Housing Defects (Myton Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (3) The Housing Defects (Newland Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (4) The Housing Defects (Tarran Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (5) The Housing Defects (Unity and Butterley Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£17,000
B Dwellings in, or consisting of, buildings in a class designated by:— (1) The Housing Defects (Cornish Unit Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984, where the building is constructed substantially in accordance with the method shown in the diagram in Annex A or B to that designation; (2) The Housing Defects (Gregory Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£17,000
C Dwellings in, or consisting of, two-storey buildings in a class designated by:— (1) The Housing Defects (Cornish Unit Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984, where the building is constructed substantially in accordance with the method shown in the diagram in Annex C to that designation; (2) The Housing Defects (Unity and Butterley Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£23,000
D Dwellings in, or consisting of, buildings in a class designated by:— (1) The Housing Defects (Airey Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (2) The Housing Defects (Stent Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£23,000
E Dwellings in, or consisting of, two-storey buildings in a class designated by:— (1) The Housing Defects (Dorran Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (2) The Housing Defects (Myton Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (3) The Housing Defects (Newland Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (4) The Housing Defects (Tarran Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£27,000
F Dwellings in, or consisting of, buildings in a class designated by:— (1) The Housing Defects (Boswell Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (2) The Housing Defects (Dyke Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (3) The Housing Defects (Schindler and Hawksley SGS Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (4) The Housing Defects (Smith (BSC) Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (5) The Housing Defects (Stonecrete Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (6) The Housing Defects (Underdown Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (7) The Housing Defects (Waller Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (8) The Housing Defects (Wates Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (9) The Housing Defects (Winget Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£27,000
G Dwellings in, or consisting of, buildings in a class designated by:—
(1) The Housing Defects (Boot Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (2) The Housing Defects (Orlit Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (3) The Housing Defects (Parkinson Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (4) The Housing Defects (Reema Hollow Panel Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (5) The Housing Defects (Wessex Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984; (6) The Housing Defects (Woolaway Prefabricated Reinforced Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1984.	£31,000
H All other dwellings in, or consisting of, buildings in a class designated under either section 528 or section 559 of the Housing Act 1985.	£14,000

(This note is not part of the Order)
Under Part XVI of the Housing Act 1985 (“the Act”) an owner of a defective dwelling (one in a class designated by the Secretary of State or a local housing authority) can, if the appropriate conditions are fulfilled, require the local housing authority either to give him a grant towards the reinstatement of the dwelling or to repurchase it from him at 95 per cent. of a“defect-free” value. The amount of reinstatement grant is the smaller of the following two amounts:—
(a) 90 per cent. (or in the case of financial hardship, 100 per cent.) of the estimated or the actual expenditure incurred, or
(b) the expenditure limit specified in the Order.
This Order, which extends to England and Wales, specifies, in accordance with section 543 of the Act, expenditure limits (ranging from £14,000 to £31,000) for various categories of defective dwelling. Category H, which is a residual category having a limit of £14,000, applies to all defective dwellings designated by local housing authorities, and to any further defective dwellings to be designated by the Secretary of State.
This Order revokes the Housing Defects (Expenditure Limits) Order 1986, which specified limits ranging from £14,000 to £24,000.
Information about designations made by local housing authorities may be obtained from the authority concerned. The Housing Defects (Smith (BSC) Prefabricated Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designation 1986 may be obtained from the Department of the Environment. The Housing Defects (Prefabricated Concrete Dwellings) (England and Wales) Designations 1984 (ISBN 0 11 751769 0), which contains as Annexes all the other designations mentioned in the Schedule to this order, may be obtained from Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.