{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/grants-by-local-housing-authorities-appropriate-percentage-and-exchequer-contributions-order-1988/note",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/grants-by-local-housing-authorities-appropriate-percentage-and-exchequer-contributions-order-1988/note.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/1988/33",
  "legislation_title": "The Grants by Local Housing Authorities (Appropriate Percentage and Exchequer Contributions) Order 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/grants-by-local-housing-authorities-appropriate-percentage-and-exchequer-contributions-order-1988",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nSchedule 3 to the Housing and Planning Act 1986 inserted provisions into Part XV of the Housing Act 1985 (“the 1985 Act”) to provide for a new form of grant, to be available from a local housing authority, towards the costs of works required for the improvement or repair of the common parts of a building containing one or more flats.\nThe amount of a grant made under Part XV of the 1985 Act is determined inter alia by the “appropriate percentage”of the costs of the works to be carried out. Section 509 of the 1985 Act provides for this percentage to be ascertained from orders made by the Secretary of State. Articles 3 to 6 of this Order prescribe the appropriate percentage in relation to applications for common parts grants in different descriptions of cases.\nArticle 7 of the Order specifies the percentages of common parts grants which may be contributed by the Secretary of State towards the expenses incurred by a local housing authority in making such grants. The effect of article 7, taken together with section 516 of the 1985 Act, is to set the percentage which may be contributed by the Secretary of State at 90 per cent. where the appropriate percentage is 75 per cent. and at 75 per cent. in all other cases.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1988/33/note",
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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."
}