Assistance for Minor Works to Dwellings (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1997 No. 79

HOUSING

Assistance for Minor Works to Dwellings (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997

Made

20th February 1997

Coming into operation

7th April 1997

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by Article 69(3) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992(1) 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 Assistance for Minor Works to Dwellings (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1997 and shall come into operation on 7th April 1997.

Amendment of Assistance for Minor Works to Dwellings Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992

2.  In regulation 4(c) of the Assistance for Minor Works to Dwellings Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992(2) the words “or income based jobseekers allowance under Part II of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995(3)” shall be inserted at the end.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

L.S.

J. McCormick

Assistant Secretary

20th February 1997.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

These Regulations amend regulation 4 of the Assistance for Minor Works to Dwellings Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1992 by adding income-based jobseekers allowance under Part II of the Jobseekers (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 to the list of qualifying benefits for minor works assistance grant.

(1)

S.I. 1992/1725 (N.I. 15). See Article 2(2) for the definition of “the Department”

(2)

S.R. 1992 No. 377

(3)

S.I. 1995/2705 (N.I. 15)