The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2000 No. 160

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000.

Made

9th May 2000

Coming into operation

20th June 2000

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government &c. (Northern Ireland) Order 1972(1) and now vested in it(2) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 and shall come into operation on 20th June 2000.

General Grant

2.  For the purpose of paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government &c. (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 the districts specified for the year ending 31st March 2001 shall be districts listed below—

• Ards

• Armagh

• Ballymoney

• Banbridge

• Belfast

• Carrickfergus

• Castlereagh

• Cookstown

• Craigavon

• Derry(3)

• Down

• Dungannon & South Tyrone(4)

• Fermanagh

• Larne

• Limavady

• Lisburn

• Magherafelt

• Moyle

• Newry & Mourne

• Newtownabbey

• Omagh

• Srabane

Revocation

3.  The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996(5) is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 9th May 2000.

L.S.

John McConnell

A senior officer of the

Department of the Environment

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order—

(a) specifies those districts which are to be taken into account in calculating the standard penny rate products for the year ending 31st March 2001 for the purpose of computing the resources element of the grant made from central funds by the Department of the Environment to district councils (Article 2);

(b) revokes a previous Order which is now spent (Article 3).

(1)

S.I. 1972/1999 (N.I. 22)

(2)

S.R. & O. (N.I.) 1973 No. 504 Art. 7(1); S.I. 1976/424 (N.I. 6)

(3)

See S.R. 1984 No. 121

(4)

See S.R. 1999 No. 426

(5)

S.R. 1996 No. 189