
1 
This Order may be cited as the Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) (Amendment) Order (Northern Ireland) 2013 and shall come into operation on 1st August 2013.
2 
For Article 2 of the Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004, substitute:“
2. 

(1) For the purposes of Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 (scheme for emergency grants), the following are descriptions of tenancies to which Article 29A applies:
(a) an introductory tenancy within the meaning of Article 6 of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 2003; and
(b) a private tenancy, other than a protected tenancy or a statutory tenancy.
(2) In this Article, “private tenancy” means any tenancy except:—
(a) a tenancy under which the estate of the landlord belongs to:—
(i) the Crown (whether in right of Her Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom or in Northern Ireland);
(ii) a government department;
(iii) the Executive;
(iv) a registered housing association;
or is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department.
(b) a tenancy the purpose of which is to confer on the tenant the right to occupy a dwelling house for a holiday.”.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 7th June 2013.
Jim Wilkinson
A senior officer of the Department for Social Development
