Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.-(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1992 and shall come into force on 1st April 1992.

(2) In this Order-

"the 1987 Act" means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;

"appropriate local authority" means a local authority specified in Schedule 1 whose eligible expenditure and relevant income have been taken into account in estimating the aggregate amounts of eligible expenditure and relevant income for the purpose of fixing the aggregate amount of housing support grants; and

"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 1992 relates.

(3) Except where the context otherwise requires-

(a)any reference to a numbered article or Schedule is a reference to the article or Schedule bearing that number in this Order; 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.

Aggregate amount of grants for 1992-93

2. The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for 1992-93 shall be £47,470,415.

Apportionment of grants for 1992-93

3.-(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1992-93 shall be divided into 2 portions hereinafter referred to as the "general portion" and the "hostel portion".

(2) The general portion shall amount to £45,848,088 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities according to their respective estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2.

(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £1,622,327 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities mentioned in Schedule 3 according to their respective estimated net expendi tures for the year 1992-93 on those buildings specified in paragraph 1(e) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (which provides for lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority's housing revenue account).

Article 1(2)

SCHEDULE 1APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR THE YEAR 1992-93

District councils

Annandale and Eskdale

Argyll and Bute

Badenoch and Strathspey

Bearsden and Milngavie

Caithness

City of Glasgow

Clydebank

Gordon

Inverness

Kincardine and Deeside

Lochaber

Nairn

Ross and Cromarty

Roxburgh

Skye and Lochalsh

Stewartry

Sutherland

Wigtown

Islands councils

Orkney

Shetland

Western Isles

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE 2ASSESSMENT OF ESTIMATED NET EXPENDITURE BY APPROPRIATE LOCAL AUTHORITIES FOR 1992-93 FOR PURPOSES OF APPORTIONMENT OF GENERAL PORTION

The estimated net expenditure of an appropriate local authority shall be the amount arrived at by addition of the amounts specified in items 1 to 8 below less the amounts specified in items 9 and 10 below.

1. Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the appropriate local authority's housing revenue account for the year 1992-93 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses.

2. The amount to be so debited for supervision and management shall be £125.6542751101 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

3. A supplementary amount to be so debited for supervision and management for authorities with stocks of houses not exceeding 9,000 shall be-

(a)£50.2617100441 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses; or

(b)£25.1308550220 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses; or

(c)£12.5654275110 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.

4. The amount to be so debited for repairs and maintenance shall be £360.9158522351 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.

5. A supplementary amount to be so debited for repairs and maintenance shall be £559.4195709644 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are not less than 15 storeys.

6. A supplementary amount to be so debited for repairs and maintenance shall be £252.6410965646 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are of more than 4 but not more than 14 storeys, with lifts.

7. Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.

8. Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority's housing revenue account.

9. £1370.82 multiplied by the number of the authority's houses other than houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less.

10. Estimated other miscellaneous income which may properly be included in the authority's housing revenue account.

Article 3(3)

SCHEDULE 3LOCAL AUTHORITIES RECEIVING PROPORTION OF HOSTEL PORTION FOR 1992-93

District councils

Annandale and Eskdale

City of Edinburgh

City of Glasgow

Cunninghame

East Kilbride

Eastwood

Falkirk

Gordon

Inverclyde

Inverness

Kilmarnock and Loudoun

Kyle and Carrick

Perth and Kinross

Renfrew

Skye and Lochalsh

Stirling

Islands council

Shetland

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order fixes for the year 1992-93 the aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable to certain local authorities under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987; lists the authorities among whom the grants will be apportioned and prescribes the method of apportionment among those authorities of the general and hostel portions of the aggregate amount.