2007 No. 126
local government
The Local Government (General ) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007
Made 2nd March 2007
Coming into operation 6th April 2007
To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 7(3) of the Schedule to the Northern Ireland Act 2000

The Department of the Environment makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 4 of The Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 2002.
S.I. 2002/3149 ( 3)
In accordance with Article 4(7) of that Order the Department has consulted such district councils and other interested bodies or persons as the Department considers appropriate:

1 Citation and commencement
These Regulations may be cited as The Local Government (General ) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2007 and shall come into operation on 6th April 2007.

2 The Local Government (General ) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003
1 The Local Government (General ) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003 shall be amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
S.R. 2003 No. 58 to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations
2 In regulation 2 (interpretation) the definition of “domestic net annual values” shall be deleted.
3 (a) In Part II (measures applied to adjust for additional needs) of the Schedule, in paragraph 4(a)(ii) the words “and domestic net annual values” shall be deleted.
(b) In paragraph 6(a)—
(i) in sub-paragraph (i) for the words “100 percent weighting” there shall be inserted “50 percent weighting and income scores with a 50 percent weighting”; and
(ii) in sub-paragraph (ii) for the words “50 percent weighting and domestic net annual values with a 50 percent weighting” there shall be substituted “100 percent weighting”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 2nd March 2007.
J Ritchie A senior officer of the Department of the Environment

EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend The Local Government (General ) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003.
The application of employment deprivation scores with a 100 percent weighting to address deprivation by adjusting the population of a local government district as a proportion of community services expenditure in each district is changed to the application of employment deprivation scores with a 50 percent weighting and income deprivation scores with a 50 percent weighting.
The domestic net annual values measure applied with a 50 percent weighting to economic development expenditure to adjust the population of a local government district to address deprivation is removed. The application of employment deprivation scores is increased to a 100 percent weighting.
Both the employment and income deprivation scores are extracted from The Northern Ireland Multiple Deprivation Measure produced by the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency of the Department of Finance and Personnel and is available from The Stationary Office (TSO), 16 Arthur Street, Belfast, BT1 4GD.