The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994

• Citation: S.I. 1994/430
• Sections: 10

Section 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994 and shall come into force on 1st April 1994.

(2) In this Order—;

“appropriate local authority” means a local authority specified in Schedule 1 to this Order (which lists authorities 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); 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 1994 relates.

(3) In this Order 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.

Section 2 Aggregate amount of grants for 1994-95

The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1994-95 shall be £25,685,644.

Section 3 Apportionment of grants for 1994-95

(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1994-95 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.

(2) The general portion shall amount to £23,619,305 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities according to their respective estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £2,066,339 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities mentioned in Schedule 3 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1994-95 on those buildings specified in paragraph 1(1)(e) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (which provides for lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).

Section 1 Expenditure

Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the appropriate local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 1994-95 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses.

Section 2 Expenditure

For supervision and management—

(a) £165.48 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and

(b) for authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 9,000 a supplementary amount of—

(i) £66.19 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses;

(ii) £33.10 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses; or

(iii) £16.55 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.

Section 3 Expenditure

For repairs and maintenance—

(a) £475.72 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and

(b) supplementary amounts of—

(i) £737.37 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are 15 or more storeys; and

(ii) £333.00 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are between 5 and 14 storeys, with lifts.

Section 4 Expenditure

Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.

Section 5 Expenditure

Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

Section 6 Income

£1812.91 multiplied by the number of the authority’s houses other than houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less.

Section 7 Income

Estimated other miscellaneous income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.