1996 No. 189

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1996

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

Made

Coming into operation

The Department of the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred 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) 1996 and shall come into operation on 21st June 1996.

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 1997 shall be the districts listed below—

Ards

Belfast

Dungannon

Newry and Mourne

Armagh

Carrickfergus

Larne

Strabane

Ballymena

Castlereagh

Lisburn

Ballymoney

Craigavon

Magherafelt

Banbridge

Down

Moyle

Revocation3

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 19923 is hereby revoked.

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

J. McCormickAssistant 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 1997 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).