Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 61

HOUSING

Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

23rd February 2004

Coming into operation

1st April 2004

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988(1) 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 Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004.

Specified tenancy

2.  For the purposes of Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (scheme for emergency grants), an introductory tenancy within the meaning of Article 6 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003(2) is a description of tenancy to which Article 29A applies.

Application

3.  This Order shall not apply in relation to applications for emergency grant made before 1st April 2004.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23rd February 2004.

L.S.

D. M. Crothers

A senior officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

Article 29A of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (scheme for emergency grants) requires the Housing Executive to comply with a scheme for paying grants to eligible tenants who are unable or unwilling to occupy their homes as a consequence of acts of violence etc. Regulation 2 adds a further category of tenancy to which Article 29A applies.

(1)

S.I. 1988/1990 (N.I. 23); Article 29A was inserted by Article 138 of S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2)

(2)

S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2)