# The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1996 S.I. 1996/813 · made 13 March 1996 This Order fixes for the year 1996-97 the aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable to some local authorities under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; lists the councils among whom the grants will be apportioned; and prescribed the method of apportionment among those councils of the general and hostel portions of the aggregate amount. Made under: Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (Section 191, Section 192) ## Introductory text HOUSING, SCOTLAND Made 13th March 1996 Coming into force 1st April 1996 The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 191 and 192 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, after consultation with such associations of local councils as appear to him to be concerned and with the consent of the Treasury, hereby makes the following Order, a draft of which has been approved by the House of Commons: ## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation (1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1996 and shall come into force on 1st April 1996. (2) In this Order— (a) “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 1996 relates; 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. ## 2 Aggregate amount of grants for 1996-97 The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1996-97 shall be £19,433,189. ## 3 Apportionment of grants for 1996-97 (1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1996-97 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”. (2) The general portion shall amount to £16,375,682 and shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 1 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1996-97 assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order. (3) The hostel portion shall amount to £3,057,507 and shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 3 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 1996-97 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). ## Signature Raymond S Robertson Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 7th March 1996 We consent, Simon Burns Michael Bates Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury 13th March 1996 ## Schedule 1 LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF GENERAL PORTION FOR 1996-97 Aberdeenshire Council Highland Council Shetland Islands Council Western Isles Council ## Schedule 2 ASSESSMENT OF ESTIMATED NET EXPENDITURE OF SCHEDULE 1 LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 1996-97 FOR APPORTIONMENT OF GENERAL PORTION The estimated net expenditure of a local authority listed in Schedule 1 to this Order for the purposes of apportionment of the general portion shall be the amount arrived at by addition of the amounts specified in items 1 to 5 below less the amounts specified in items 6 and 7 below. ## 1 Expenditure Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 1996-97 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses. ## 2 Expenditure For supervision and management— (a) £187.70 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) £75.08 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses; (ii) £37.54 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses; or (iii) £18.77 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. ## 3 Expenditure For repairs and maintenance— (a) £524.70 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and (b) supplementary amounts of— (i) £813.29 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats of 15 or more storeys; and (ii) £367.29 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats of 5 or more but less than 15 storeys, with lifts. ## 4 Expenditure Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses. ## 5 Expenditure Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account. ## 6 Income £2,007.35 multiplied by the number of the authority’s houses other than houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less. ## 7 Income Estimated income other than rental income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account. ## Schedule 3 LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF HOSTEL PORTION FOR 1996-97 Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Argyll and Bute City of Edinburgh City of Glasgow Dumfries and Galloway Dundee City East Ayrshire East Renfrewshire Falkirk Fife Highland Inverclyde Moray Perth and Kinross North Ayrshire Renfrewshire Shetland Islands South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order fixes for the year 1996-97 the aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable to some local authorities under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; lists the councils among whom the grants will be apportioned; and prescribed the method of apportionment among those councils of the general and hostel portions of the aggregate amount. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1996/813 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-support-grant-scotland-order-1996 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.