2002 No. 182
LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002

Made
Affirmed by resolution of the Assembly on
Coming into operation in accordance with Article 1(2)
The Department of the Environment in exercise of the powers conferred by paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government &c. (Northern Ireland) Order 19721 and now vested in it2 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1.

(1)

This Order may be cited as the Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 2002.

(2)

This Order shall come into operation on the day after it is approved by a resolution of the Assembly.

General Grant2.

For the purpose of paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government &c. (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 the districts specified for the year ending 31st March 2003 shall be the districts listed below—

Antrim

Coleraine

Newtownabbey

Ards

Craigavon

North Down

Ballymena

Derry3

Omagh

Carrickfergus

Larne

Strabane

Castlereagh

Lisburn

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on 13th May 2002.

D. Nesbitt
Minister of the Environment
(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order specifies those districts which are to be taken into account in calculating the standard penny rate products for the year ending 31st March 2003 for the purpose of computing the resources element of the grant made from central funds by the Department of the Environment to district councils (Article 2).