Statutory Rules of Northern Ireland

2004 No. 61

HOUSING

Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004

Made

23rd February 2004

Coming into operation

1st April 2004

The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988(1) and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement N.I.

1.  This Order may be cited as the Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004.

Commencement Information

I1 Art. 1 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1

Specified tenancy N.I.

[F1 2.— (1) For the purposes of Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (scheme for emergency grants), the following are descriptions of tenancies to which Article 29A applies:

(a) an introductory tenancy within the meaning of Article 6 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003; and

(b) a private tenancy, other than a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy.

(2) In this Article, “private tenancy” means any tenancy except:—

(a) a tenancy under which the estate of the landlord belongs to:—

(i) the Crown (whether in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or in Northern Ireland);

(ii) a government department;

(iii) the Executive;

(iv) a registered housing association;

or is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department.

(b) a tenancy the purpose of which is to confer on the tenant the right to occupy a dwelling house for a holiday.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Art. 2 substituted (1.8.2013) by Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 (S.R. 2013/164), arts. 1, 2

Application N.I.

3.  This Order shall not apply in relation to applications for emergency grant made before 1st April 2004.

Commencement Information

I2 Art. 3 in operation at 1.4.2004, see art. 1

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23rd February 2004.

L.S.

D. M. Crothers

A senior officer of the

Department for Social Development

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations.)

Article 29A of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (scheme for emergency grants) requires the Housing Executive to comply with a scheme for paying grants to eligible tenants who are unable or unwilling to occupy their homes as a consequence of acts of violence etc. Regulation 2 adds a further category of tenancy to which Article 29A applies.

(1)

S.I. 1988/1990 (N.I. 23); Article 29A was inserted by Article 138 of S.I. 2003/412 (N.I. 2)