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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-northern-ireland-order-2003/article-142",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2003/0110443462",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-housing-northern-ireland-order-2003",
  "path": "article/142",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "142",
  "heading": "Repairs grants",
  "text": "(1) In Article 74 of the Order of 1992 (repairs grants towards costs of meeting certain statutory repairing obligations in respect of dwelling-houses), after paragraph (2) there shall be inserted—\n“(2A) A repairs grant shall not be payable—\n(a) to a person who is an owner of the dwelling-house and who occupies it as his only or principal home; or\n(b) to a person who is a tenant of a dwelling-house at a time when the estate of the landlord under the tenancy belongs to—\n(i) the Crown (whether in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or in Northern Ireland),\n(ii) a government department (including a department of the Government of the United Kingdom),\n(iii) the Executive, or\n(iv) a registered housing association; or\n(c) to a person of such other description as the Department may prescribe.”.\n(2) In Schedule 3 to the Order of 1992 (provisions with respect to repairs grants), in paragraph 3—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (3), for “£5,500” there shall be substituted “£7,500”;\n(b) in sub-paragraph (5), at the beginning there shall be inserted “Subject to sub-paragraph (6)”; and\n(c) after sub-paragraph (5) there shall be added—\n“(6) The total amount of repairs grant payable in any period of 3 years in respect of any one dwelling-house shall not exceed £7,500 or such other amount as the Department may by order specify.”.\n(3) The amendments made by this Article apply to a repairs grant payable under Article 74 of the Order of 1992 by the Executive towards the cost of works specified—\n(a) in a certificate of disrepair issued in respect of a dwelling-house under Article 46 of the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (NI 20), or\n(b) in a notice served in respect of a dwelling-house under section 110 of the Public Health (Ireland) Act 1878 (c. 52),\non or after the day of the coming into operation of this Article.",
  "extent": null,
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  "version": "current",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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