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Title and commencementN.I.

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing (Amendment) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006.

(2) This Article and Article 2 come into operation on the expiration of 7 days from the day on which the Order is made.

(3) Article 3 and the Schedule come into operation on such day as the Department for Social Development may by order appoint.

(4) An order under paragraph (3) may contain such transitional or saving provisions as appear to that Department to be necessary or expedient.

Subordinate Legislation Made

P1Art. 1(3) power fully exercised: 1.4.2007 appointed by {S.R. 2007/37}, art. 2

InterpretationN.I.

2.  The Interpretation Act (Northern Ireland) 1954 (c. 33) applies to this Order as it applies to an Act of the Assembly.

Arrangements for payment of grants to housing associationsN.I.

3.  The amendments set out in the Schedule, which relate to arrangements for the payment of certain grants to registered housing associations, shall have effect.

Meriel McCullagh

Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council