Housing (Accommodation Provided By Approved Bodies) Regulations,1992 (Amendment) Regulations, 2002

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 106/2002
• Year: 2002

In exercise of the powers conferred on the Minister for the Environment and Local Government by section 5 of the Housing Act, 1966 (No. 21 of 1966), as amended by section 24 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 (No. 18 of 1992), and by section 15 of the Housing Act, 1988 (No. 28 of 1988), as amended by section 27 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 , which powers are delegated to me by the Environment and Local Government (Delegation of Ministerial Functions) Order, 1997 ( S.I. No. 427 of 1997 ), I, Robert Molloy, Minister of State at the Department of the Environment and Local Government, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby make the following Regulations:— 1. These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Accommodation Provided by Approved Bodies) Regulations 1992 (Amendment) Regulations, 2002. 2. In these Regulations “the Regulations of 1992” means the Housing (Accommodation Provided By Approved Bodies Regulations, 1992 ( S.I. No. 86 of 1992 ). 3. Article 4 of the Regulations of 1992 is hereby amended -

(1) by the substitution for sub-article (1) of the following:

“(1) Subject to sub-article (1A), a grant by the Minister to a housing authority under section 15 in respect of the provision of assistance under section 6 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992 to an approved body shall not exceed an amount equal to —

(a) 95 per cent of the cost, as approved by the authority, of the provision of accommodation for persons regarded by the authority as being homeless in accordance with section 2, or

(b) 100 per cent of the cost, as approved by the authority, of the provision of Traveller accommodation, or

(c) in the case of accommodation other than that referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) —

(i) where works commenced before the 18th day of July 2001, 90 per cent of the cost, as approved by the authority, of the provision of the accommodation, or

(ii) where works commenced on or after the 18th day of July 2001, 95 per cent of the cost, as approved by the authority, of the provision of the accommodation,

where the authority are satisfied that at least 75 per cent of the units of accommodation will be let to persons to whom this paragraph applies, of whom up to one third may be persons referred to in sub-article (3)(b),

subject to a maximum grant of:—

(i) where works commenced before the 27th day of January, 1994, £22,000 for each unit of category one accommodation and £25,000 for each unit of category two accommodation,

(ii) where works commenced on or after the 27th day of January, 1994, and before the 1st day of May, 1995, £26,000 for each unit of category one accommodation and £29,000 for each unit of category two accommodation,

(iii) where works commenced on or after the 1st day of May, 1995 and before the 1st day of July, 1997, £27,000 for each unit of category one accommodation and £33,000 for each unit of category two accommodation or each bay in Traveller accommodation,

(iv) where works commenced on or after the 1st day of July, 1997 and before the 1st day of December 1998 —

(I) £41,000 for each unit of category one accommodation and £48,000 for each unit of category two accommodation or each bay in Traveller accommodation, located on an island specified in the Schedule to these Regulations, or

(II) £36,000 for each unit of category one accommodation and £43,000 for each unit of category two accommodation or each bay in Traveller accommodation, located in the administrative area of a city council or in the administrative county of Fingal, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown and South Dublin, or

(I) £32,000 for each unit of category one accommodation and £40,000 for each unit of category two accommodation or each bay in Traveller accommodation in any...