The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Grant Limit) (Amendment) Order 1993

Statutory Instruments

1993 No. 2711

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

The Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Grant Limit) (Amendment) Order 1993

Made

2nd November 1993

Laid before Parliament

3rd November 1993

Coming into force

14th January 1994

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections 116(5), section 137 and section 191 of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989(1) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Grant Limit) (Amendment) Order 1993 and shall come into force on 14th January 1994.

Amendment

2.  In the Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Grant Limit) Order 1993(2), for paragraph (a) of the definition of A in article 2 substitute–

“(a) £20,000 if the dwelling or building is in England and £24,000 if it is in Wales; and”.

Transitional provision

3.  This Order shall not have effect in relation to an application for a grant made before this Order comes into force.

Signed by authority of the Secretary of State

G. S. K. Young

Minister of State

Department of the Environment

1st November 1993

John Redwood

Secretary of State for Wales

2nd November 1993

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the formula in the Housing Renovation etc. Grants (Grant Limit) Order 1993 for calculating the maximum amount of grant which a local housing authority may pay under Part VIII of the Local Government and Housing Act 1989 (grants towards costs of improvements and repairs). By virtue of the formula the maximum amount of mandatory grant was the lesser of £50,000 and the amount calculated under paragraph (b) of article 2 of the earlier Order. Article 2 of this Order replaces the figure of £50,000 with £20,000 in respect of grants for properties in England and with £24,000 for properties in Wales.

Article 3 of this Order stops the amendment applying to applications made before the Order comes into force.

(1)

1989 c. 42.

(2)

S.I. 1993/553.