http://www.legislation.gov.uk/apni/1948/25/section/3Development Services Act (Northern Ireland) 1948An Act to enable financial assistance to be given and other measures to be taken to provide for certain services, for bringing derelict land into use, and for the development of derelict areas generally; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.texttext/xmlenStatute Law Database2011-05-262006-01-01 3For the purpose of enabling land which appears to the Ministry to be derelict and likely to remain so for a considerable period to be brought into use, the Ministry, or such other Government department as the Ministry may designate for the purpose, may make grants, of such amount in such manner and at such time or times as the said Ministry or department (as the case may be) may determine, to any local or public authority towards the cost of enabling such land to be brought into use or of improving the amenities of the neighbourhood thereof.