Citation and commencement

1.  This Order may be cited as the Housing Support Grant (Scotland) Order 2010 and comes into force on 1st April 2010.

Aggregate amount of grants for 2010-2011

2.  The aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2010‑2011 is £1,216,809.

Grants for 2010-2011

3.—(1) The proportion of the aggregate amount of the housing support grants for the year 2010‑2011 payable to Shetland Islands Council is all of the aggregate amount.

(2) The method by which that proportion has been determined is set out in the Schedule.

Article 3(2)

SCHEDULE

1.  To determine the proportion of the housing support grants payable to Shetland Islands Council, the total of the amounts specified in items 7 and 8 is deducted from the total of the amounts specified in items 2 to 6.

Expenditure

2.  Estimated loan charges due to be debited to the local authority’s housing revenue account for the year 2010‑2011 under paragraph 3(a) of Schedule 15 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

3.  For supervision and management—

(a)£307.84 multiplied by the number of houses of the local authority; and

(b)where the local authority has a stock of houses not exceeding 3,000 a supplementary amount of £123.14 per house.

4.  For repairs and maintenance, £1,355.31 multiplied by the number of houses of the local authority.

5.  Estimated rents lost because of unlet houses.

6.  Estimated other miscellaneous expenditure which may properly be included in the local authority’s housing revenue account.

Income

7.  Rental income of £3,000.96 multiplied by the number of houses of the local authority.

8.  Estimated income other than rental income which may properly be included in the local authority’s housing revenue account.

Interpretation

9.  In this Schedule—

(a)“the number of houses of the local authority” means the estimate of the number of houses to which the housing revenue account of Shetland Islands Council, at 31st March 2010, relates; and

(b)any reference to any type of expenditure, charge or income which is estimated is a reference to such an estimate made by the Scottish Ministers.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order fixes for the year 2010‑2011 the aggregate amount of the housing support grants payable under section 191 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (article 2).

Article 3 provides that the proportion of the aggregate amount payable to Shetland Islands Council is all of the aggregate amount. The method by which that proportion is determined is set out in the Schedule.