
1 

(1) This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 1st April 2005.
(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 2005, 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 Scottish Ministers.
2 
The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2005–2006 shall be £4,900,499.
3 
The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2005–2006 shall be apportioned among the local authorities listed in Schedule 1 to this Order according to their respective estimated net expenditures for the year 2005–2006 and assessed in the manner provided for in Schedule 2 to this Order.
MALCOLM CHISHOLM
A member of the Scottish Executive
St Andrew’s House, Edinburgh
17th March 2005
SCHEDULE 1
Article 3


 Comhairle nan Eilean Siar
 Shetland Islands

SCHEDULE 2
Article 3
1 
The estimated net expenditure of a local authority listed in Schedule 1 to this Order for the purposes of apportionment of the housing support grants shall be the amount arrived at by the addition of the amounts specified in items 2 to 6 below less the amounts specified in items 7 and 8 below.
2 
Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 2005–2006 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.
3 
For supervision and management–
(a) £248.35 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 £99.34 per house.
4 
For repairs and maintenance, £692.77 multiplied by the number of houses of the authority.
5 
Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.
6 
Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.
7 
£2506.80 multiplied by the number of the houses of the authority.
8 
Estimated income other than rental income which may properly be included in the authority’s housing revenue account.