(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In this Order—
“the 1987 Act ” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;
“appropriate local authority” means a local authority whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been taken into account in estimating the aggregate amounts of eligible expenditure and relevant income for the purpose of fixing the aggregate amount of housing support grants, each such authority being specified in Schedule 1; and
“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 1991 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 any type of expenditure, charge or income which is estimated is a reference to such an estimate made by the Secretary of State.