1998 No. 185

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998

Made

To be laid before Parliament under paragraph 3(3) of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland Act 1974

Coming into operation

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on it by paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government &c. (Northern Ireland) Order 19721 and now vested in it2 and of every other power enabling it in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:

Citation and commencement1

This Order may be cited as the Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st July 1998.

General Grant2

For the purpose of paragraph 3(1) of Part I of Schedule 1 to the Local Government &c. (Northern Ireland) Order 1972 the districts specified for the year ending 31st March 1999 shall be the districts listed below—

Antrim

Carrickfergus

Down

Moyle

Ards

Castlereagh

Dungannon

Newry and Mourne

Ballymoney

Cookstown

Fermanagh

Newtownabbey

Banbridge

Craigavon

Limavady

North Down

Belfast

Derry3

Magherafelt

Omagh

Revocation3

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 19944 is hereby revoked.

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of the Environment on

R. McMinnisAssistant Secretary

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order—

a

specifies those districts which are to be taken into account in calculating the standard penny rate products for the year ending 31st March 1999 for the purpose of computing the resources element of the grant made from central funds by the Department of the Environment to district councils (Article 2);

b

revokes a previous Order which is now spent (Article 3).