The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

(2) In this Order—;

“appropriate local authority” means a local authority specified in Schedule 1 to this Order (which lists authorities whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been taken into account in estimating the aggregate amounts of eligible expenditure and relevant income for the purpose of fixing the aggregate amount of housing support grants); and

“the number of houses of the authority” means the estimate of the number of houses to which the housing revenue account of the authority at 30th September 1994 relates.

(3) In this Order any reference to any type of expenditure, charge or income which is estimated is a reference to such an estimate made by the Secretary of State.

Aggregate amount of grants for 1994-95

2.  The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1994-95 shall be £25,685,644.

Apportionment of grants for 1994-95

3.—(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1994-95 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.

(2) The general portion shall amount to £23,619,305 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities according to their respective estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £2,066,339 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1994-95 on those buildings specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (which provides for lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).

James Douglas-Hamilton,

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

17th February 1994

We consent,

T.J.R. Wood,

Irvine Patnick,

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

22nd February 1994