Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1983

JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1983/82

1983 No. 82

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

HOUSING, SCOTLAND

The Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1983

28thJanuary 1983

7thFebruary 1983

28thFebruary 1983

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of their powers under sections 1(2) and 2(7) of the Home Purchase Assistance and Housing Corporation Guarantee Act 1978 (a) and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following order:—

Citation and Commencement

1. This order may be cited as the Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1983 and shall come into operation on 28th February 1983.

Prescribed price-limits

2. The amounts mentioned in Column 2 of the Schedule to this order are prescribed as the price-limits in respect of house property situated in the parts of Great Britain mentioned in Column 1.

Revocations

3. The Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1981 (b) and the Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) (Hertfordshire and Lincolnshire) Order 1981 (c) are hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

 Column 1 Column 2
                Scotland … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … £23,400
                Wales … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … £20,700
                Greater London … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … £30,000
                The counties of Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire
                 Somerset and Wiltshire; and the Isles of Scilly … … … … … . £23,900
                The counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk … … … … .. £22,800
                The counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East
                 Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent
                 Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex … … … … … … … … … . £26,800
                The counties of Cleveland, Cumbria, Durham, Northumberland and
                 Tyne and Wear … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … .. £18,400
                The counties of Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and
                 West Yorkshire … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … . £18,000
                

(a) 1978 c.27.

(b) S.I. 1981/1061.

(c) S.I. 1981/1126.

The counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and
                 Merseyside… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … £19,800
                The counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire
                 Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire … … … … … … … … … £20,100
                The counties of Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire
                 Warwickshire and West Midlands … … … … … … … … … … … £20,000
                

Tom King, Secretary of State for the Environment.

21st January 1983.

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