Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1989 and shall come into force on 1st April 1989.

(2) In this Order-

"the 1987 Act" means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;

"appropriate local authority" means a local authority other than an authority whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been left out of account by virtue of section 191(5) of the 1987 Act;

"hostel" means a hostel as defined in section 2(5) of the 1987 Act;

"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 1989 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 an estimate is a reference to an estimate made by the Secretary of State.

Aggregate grant for 1989-90

2. The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for 1989-90 shall be £60,385,047.

Apportionment of housing support grants for 1989-90

3.-(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1989-90 shall be divided into two portions hereinafter referred to as the "general portion" and the "hostel portion" .

(2) The general portion shall amount to £59,023,959 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities in proportion to their estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided in the Schedule to this Order.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £1,361,088 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities in proportion to their estimated net expenditures for the year 1989-90 on the provision of hostels and lodging houses.

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULEASSESSMENT OF NET EXPENDITURE FOR APPORTIONMENT OF GENERAL PORTION OF HOUSING SUPPORT GRANTS AMONG APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 1989-90

The 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 1989-90 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses).

2. £82.654411 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

3.-(a) £33.061764 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses, or

(b)£16.530882 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses, or

(c)£8.265441 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. £248.052707 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

5. £384.481699 multiplied by the number of high-rise houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are of fifteen or more storeys.

6. £173.636896 multiplied by the number of high-rise 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. £984.65 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority excluding certain houses leased by the authority for short term occupation without, or with nominal, rental income.

9. Estimated other miscellaneous income which may properly be included in the authority's housing revenue account, excluding a general fund contribution which for the year 1989-90 has been estimated at nil.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order in relation to the year 1989-90-

(i)fixes the estimated aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 to certain local authorities in Scotland; and

(ii)prescribes the method of apportionment of housing support grants among those authorities.