The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

1998 No. 185

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

15th May 1998

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Coming into operation

1st July 1998

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it 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) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1998.

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 1999 shall be the districts listed below—

Antrim	Carrickfergus	Down	Moyle
Ards	Castlereagh	Dungannon	Newry and Mourne
Ballymoney	Cookstown	Fermanagh	Newtownabbey
Banbridge	Craigavon	Limavady	North Down
Belfast	Derry(3)	Magherafelt	Omagh

Revocation

3.  The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1994(4) is hereby revoked.

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

L.S.

R. McMinnis

Assistant Secretary

15th May 1998.

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 1999 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)

S.R. 1994 No. 162