The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991

Statutory Instruments

1991 No. 244 (S. 19)

HOUSING, SCOTLAND

The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991

Made

8th February 1991

Coming into force

1st April 1991

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 191 and 192 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987(1), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, and after such consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned as is required by the said sections 191 and 192, and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has been approved by the House of Commons:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.

(2) In this Order—

“the 1987 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;

“appropriate local authority” means a local authority whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been taken into account in estimating the aggregate amounts of eligible expenditure and relevant income for the purpose of fixing the aggregate amount of housing support grants, each such authority being specified in Schedule 1; and

“the number of houses of the authority” means the estimate of the number of houses to which the housing revenue account of the authority at 30th September 1991 relates.

(3) Except where the context otherwise requires—

(a) any reference to a numbered article or Schedule is a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order; and

(b) any reference to any type of expenditure, charge or income which is estimated is a reference to such an estimate made by the Secretary of State.

Aggregate grant for 1991-92

2.  The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for 1991-92 shall be £55,435,945.

Apportionment of aggregate grant for 1991-92

3.—(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1991-92 shall be divided into two portions hereinafter referred to as the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.

(2) The general portion shall amount to £54,010,631 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities in proportion to their estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided in Schedule 2.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £1,425,314 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities specified in Schedule 3 in proportion to their estimated net expenditures for the year 1991-92 in relation to those buildings specified in paragraph 1(e) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (which specifies lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).

James Douglas-Hamilton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

St Andrew’s House,

Edinburgh

2nd February 1991

We consent,

Sydney Chapman

I. C. Patnick

Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury

8th February 1991

Article 1(2)

SCHEDULE 1 APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR THE YEAR 1991-92

• Roxburgh District Council

• Annandale and Eskdale District Council

• Stewartry District Council

• Wigtown District Council

• Gordon District Council

• Kincardine and Deeside District Council

• Badenoch and Strathspey District Council

• Caithness District Council

• Inverness District Council

• Lochaber District Council

• Nairn District Council

• Ross and Cromarty District Council

• Skye and Lochalsh District Council

• Sutherland District Council

• Argyll and Bute District Council

• Bearsden and Milngavie District Council

• Clydebank District Council

• City of Glasgow District Council

• Orkney Islands Council

• Shetland Islands Council

• Western Isles Islands Council

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE 2 ASSESSMENT OF ESTIMATED NET EXPENDITURE FOR APPORTIONMENT OF THE GENERAL PORTION OF THE AGGREGATE AMOUNT OF HOUSING SUPPORT GRANTS AMONG APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 1991-92

The estimated net expenditure of an appropriate local authority shall be the amount arrived at by addition of the amounts specified in items 1 to 7 below less the amounts specified in items 8 and 9 below.

1.  Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the authority’s housing revenue account for the year 1991-92 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses).

2.  £104.88378442744 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

3.—(a) £41.953513770977 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses, or

(b) £20.976756885489 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses,

or

(c) £10.48837844274 in the case of an authority with more than 6,000 but not more than 9,000 houses,

multiplied in each case by the number of houses of the authority.

4.  £313.492992828183 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

5.  £485.91413888368 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are of fifteen or more storeys.

6.  £219.445094979728 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are of more than four but not more than fourteen storeys, with lifts.

7.  Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

8.  £1246.20 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority excluding houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less.

9.  Estimated other miscellaneous income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

Article 3(3)

SCHEDULE 3 LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING A HOSTELS PORTION OF HOUSING SUPPORT GRANT IN 1991-92

• Falkirk District Council

• Stirling District Council

• Annandale and Eskdale District Council

• Gordon District Council

• Inverness District Council

• City of Edinburgh District Council

• Cunninghame District Council

• East Kilbride District Council

• Eastwood District Council

• City of Glasgow District Council

• Inverclyde District Council

• Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council

• Renfrew District Council

• Perth and Kinross District Council

• Shetland Islands Council

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order fixes for the year 1991-92 the estimated aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable to certain local authorities under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; prescribes the method of apportionment among those authorities of the general and hostel portions of that amount; and specifies the authorities among whom the grants will be apportioned.

(1)

1987 c. 26.