1997 No. 242

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 1997

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) 1997 and shall come into operation on 2nd July 1997.

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 1998 shall be the districts listed below:—

Antrim

Belfast

Derry3

Moyle

Ards

Carrickfergus

Down

Newry and Mourne

Armagh

Castlereagh

Dungannon

Newtownabbey

Ballymena

Coleraine

Fermanagh

North Down

Ballymoney

Cookstown

Larne

Omagh

Banbridge

Craigavon

Limavady

Strabane

Revocation3

The Local Government (General Grant) Order (Northern Ireland) 19934 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 1998 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).