# The Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2000 S.S.I. 2000/98 · made 29 March 2000 This Order fixes for the year 2000-2001 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 prescribes 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 Made 29th March 2000 Coming into force 1st April 2000 The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 191 and 192 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to them to be concerned, hereby make the following Order, a draft of which has in accordance with section 191(9) of that Act, been laid before and approved by resolution of the Scottish Parliament: ## 1 Citation, commencement and interpretation (1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2000 and shall come into force on 1st April 2000. (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 2000, 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 Scottish Ministers. ## 2 Aggregate amount of grants for 2000-2001 The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2000-2001 shall be £9,612,887. ## 3 Apportionment of grants for 2000-2001 (1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2000-2001 shall be divided into 2 portions, the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”. (2) The general portion shall amount to £6,248,861 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 2000-2001 assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order. (3) The hostel portion shall amount to £3,364,026 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 2000-2001 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 FRANK McAVEETY Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh 29th March 2000 ## Schedule 1 LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF GENERAL PORTION FOR 2000-2001 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar Shetland Islands ## Schedule 2 ASSESSMENT OF ESTIMATED NET EXPENDITURE OF SCHEDULE 1 LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 2000-2001 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 2000-2001 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) £219.75 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority; and (b) for authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 3,000 a supplementary amount of £87.90 per house. ## 3 Expenditure For repairs and maintenance, £613.02 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority. ## 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 £2215.64 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 2000-2001 Aberdeen City Aberdeenshire Angus Argyll and Bute Dundee City East Ayrshire City of Edinburgh Falkirk Fife City of Glasgow Highland Inverclyde Moray North Ayrshire Perth and Kinross Renfrewshire Shetland Islands South Ayrshire South Lanarkshire Stirling ## Explanatory note (This note is not part of the Order) This Order fixes for the year 2000-2001 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 prescribes the method of apportionment among those councils of the general and hostel portions of the aggregate amount. --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2000/98 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-support-grant-scotland-order-2000 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.