
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1991 and shall come into force on 1st April 1991.
(2) In this Order—
 “the 1987 Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;
 “appropriate local authority” means a local authority 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, each such authority being specified in Schedule 1; 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 1991 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.
2 
The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for 1991-92 shall be £55,435,945.
3 

(1) The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 1991-92 shall be divided into two portions hereinafter referred to as the “general portion” and the “hostel portion”.
(2) The general portion shall amount to £54,010,631 and shall be apportioned among appropriate local authorities in proportion to their estimated net expenditures assessed in the manner provided in Schedule 2.
(3) The hostel portion shall amount to £1,425,314 and shall be apportioned among those local authorities specified in Schedule 3 in proportion to their estimated net expenditures for the year 1991-92 in relation to those buildings specified in paragraph 1(e) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (which specifies lodging houses and hostels as buildings for the purposes of a local authority’s housing revenue account).
James Douglas-Hamilton
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
2nd February 1991We consent,
Sydney Chapman
I. C. Patnick
Two of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury
8th February 1991
SCHEDULE 1
Article 1(2)


 Roxburgh District Council
 Annandale and Eskdale District Council
 Stewartry District Council
 Wigtown District Council
 Gordon District Council
 Kincardine and Deeside District Council
 Badenoch and Strathspey District Council
 Caithness District Council
 Inverness District Council
 Lochaber District Council
 Nairn District Council
 Ross and Cromarty District Council
 Skye and Lochalsh District Council
 Sutherland District Council
 Argyll and Bute District Council
 Bearsden and Milngavie District Council
 Clydebank District Council
 City of Glasgow District Council
 Orkney Islands Council
 Shetland Islands Council
 Western Isles Islands Council

SCHEDULE 2
Article 3(2)

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 7 below less the amounts specified in items 8 and 9 below.
1 
Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the authority’s housing revenue account for the year 1991-92 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the 1987 Act (other than loan charges in respect of hostels and lodging houses).
2 
£104.88378442744 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.
3 

(a) £41.953513770977 in the case of an authority with not more than 3,000 houses, or
(b) £20.976756885489 in the case of an authority with more than 3,000 but not more than 6,000 houses,or
(c) £10.48837844274 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 
£313.492992828183 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.
5 
£485.91413888368 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are of fifteen or more storeys.
6 
£219.445094979728 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority contained in blocks of flats which are of more than four but not more than fourteen storeys, with lifts.
7 
Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.
8 
£1246.20 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority excluding houses leased by the authority for periods of 5 years or less.
9 
Estimated other miscellaneous income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.

SCHEDULE 3
Article 3(3)


 Falkirk District Council
 Stirling District Council
 Annandale and Eskdale District Council
 Gordon District Council
 Inverness District Council
 City of Edinburgh District Council
 Cunninghame District Council
 East Kilbride District Council
 Eastwood District Council
 City of Glasgow District Council
 Inverclyde District Council
 Kilmarnock and Loudoun District Council
 Renfrew District Council
 Perth and Kinross District Council
 Shetland Islands Council
