
2004 No. 61
HOUSING
Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004
Made 23rd February 2004
Coming into operation 1st April 2004
The Department for Social Development, in exercise of the powers conferred by Article 29A(2)(c) of the Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1988 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1 
This Order may be cited as the Emergency Grants (Eligible Tenants) Order (Northern Ireland) 2004 and shall come into operation on 1st April 2004.
Specified tenancy
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.
Application
3 
This Order shall not apply in relation to applications for emergency grant made before 1st April 2004.
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department for Social Development on 23rd February 2004.
D. M. Crothers
A senior officer of the
Department for Social Development
