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Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1987

As Enacted Cited authorities 9 Cited in Amendments 4 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
CitationSI 1987/268
Year1987

1987 No. 268

HOUSING, ENGLAND AND WALES

HOUSING, SCOTLAND

The Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1987

Made 24th February 1987

Laid before the House of Commons 6th March 1987

Coming into force 27th March 1987

The Secretary of State for the Environment, as respects England, and the Secretary of State for Wales, as respects Wales, in exercise of their powers under sections 445(2) and (3) of the Housing Act 19851, and the Secretary of State for Scotland, as respects Scotland, in exercise of his powers under sections 1(2) and 2(7) of the Home Purchase Assistance and Housing Corporation Guarantee Act 19782, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Order:

S-1 Citation and commencement

Citation and commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 1987 and shall come into force on 27th March 1987.

S-2 Prescribed price-limits

Prescribed price-limits

2. The amounts mentioned in the Schedule to this Order are hereby prescribed as the price-limits for the purposes of section 445 of the Housing Act 1985 or section 1 of the Home Purchase Assistance and Housing Corporation Guarantee Act 1978 (as the case may be) in respect of house property situated in the areas mentioned in relation thereto in that Schedule.

S-3 Revocation

Revocation

3. The Home Purchase Assistance (Price-limits) Order 19863is hereby revoked.

SCHEDULE

SCHEDULE

The counties of Cleveland, Durham, Northumberland and Tyne and Wear

£25,500

The counties of Humberside, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire

£24,800

The counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, Northamptonshire and Nottinghamshire

£27,400

The counties of Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk

£34,600

Greater London

£55,400

The counties of Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, East Sussex, Essex, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Isle of Wight, Kent, Oxfordshire, Surrey and West Sussex

£44,600

The counties of Avon, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire and the Isles of Scilly

£35,600

The counties of Hereford and Worcester, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire and West Midlands

£26,900

The counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside

£26,100

Wales

£26,700

Scotland £29,800

Nicholas Ridley

Secretary of State for the Environment

18th February 1987

Nicholas Edwards

Secretary of State for Wales

23rd February 1987

Malcolm Rifkind

Secretary...

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