S.I. No. 329/2002 - Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 Commencement (No. 2) Order, 2002

The Minister for the Environment and Local Government in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 1 (3) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 (No. 9 of 2002), hereby orders as follows:—

1. This Order may be cited as the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 (Commencement) (No. 2) Order, 2002.

2. The Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 except insofar as it has already been commenced and other than sections 4, 11, 17(a) 17(b), 17(e), schedule 1 and schedule 2 shall come into operation on the date of the making of this Order.

3. Section 4 of and the First Schedule to the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 2002 shall come into operation on the date of the making of this Order to the extent specified in the Schedule to this Order.

SCHEDULE

Number and Year	Short Title	Extent of Repeal
No. 21 of 1966	Housing Act, 1966	Section 11(1)(a) and	(2)
No. 27 of 1979	Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1979	Section 3
No. 28 of 1988	Housing Act, 1988	Section 24
No. 33 of 1988	Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act, 1998	Section 28

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment and Local Government, this 27th day of June 2002.

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MARTIN CULLEN

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Minister for the Environment and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation).

This order commences sections 1 to 10, 13 to 16, 17(d), 18 to 24, Schedule 1 to the extent set out in the Order, and Schedule 3.

Those sections not being commenced are Section 11 which relates to new house grants (and related portions of Schedule 1); Section 12 which took effect from the date of enactment of the Act; Sections 17(a) and 17(b) which extend the powers of the Housing Finance Agency (HFA) to lend for non housing related capital purposes and to lend to approved bodies (and Schedule 2); Section 17(c) which increases the borrowing limit of the HFA and which has previously been commenced by the Housing Miscellaneous Provisions (Commencement) Order, 2002, S.I. 163 of 2002.