{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-74",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992/article-74.json",
  "legislation": "nisi/1992/1725",
  "legislation_title": "The Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-northern-ireland-order-1992",
  "path": "article/74",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "74",
  "heading": "Repairs grants towards costs of meeting certain statutory repairing obligations in respect of dwelling-houses",
  "text": "(1) Subject to the following provisions of this Article, repairs grants shall be payable by the Executive towards the costs of works specified—\n(a) in a notice of disrepair served in respect of a dwelling-house which is let under a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy; or\n(b) in a notice served in respect of a dwelling-house under Part 7 of the Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011.\n(1A) In paragraph (1)–\n(a) “ notice of disrepair ” means a notice under Article 19 of the Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006; and\n(b) “protected tenancy” and “statutory tenancy” have the meaning given in the Rent (Northern Ireland) Order 1978.\n(2) Repairs grant shall be payable to the person . . . , upon whom the notice was served.\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(3) Schedule 3 shall have effect with respect to applications for, and the payment of, grants under this Article.",
  "extent": "N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 74(1)(a) substituted (1.4.2007) by Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 29(2) (with (6)); S.R. 2006/428, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 74(1)(b) substituted (1.4.2012) by Clean Neighbourhoods and Environment Act (Northern Ireland) 2011 (c. 23), s. 78, Sch. 3 para. 12(1); S.R. 2012/13, art. 2(2), Sch. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 74(1A) inserted (1.4.2007) by Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 29(3) (with (6)); S.R. 2006/428, art. 3(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in art. 74(2) repealed (1.4.2007) by Private Tenancies (Northern Ireland) Order 2006 (S.I. 2006/1459 (N.I. 10)), arts. 1(3), 29(4), 75, Sch. 5 (with art. 29(6)); S.R. 2006/428, art. 3(a)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "2003 NI 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1992/1725/article/74",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:04.648545+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}