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S.I. No. 482/2015 - Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2015.

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 6th November, 2015.

I, ALAN KELLY, Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 2 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21 of 2014), hereby order as follows:

1. This Order may be cited as the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2015.

2. The 1st day of January 2016 is appointed as the day on which Part 3 (in so far as not already commenced) of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21 of 2014) comes into operation.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

30 October 2015.

ALAN KELLY,

Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

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

This Order brings the uncommenced provisions of Part 3 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (No. 21 of 2014) into operation on 1 January 2016. Part 3 of the Act provides for a new tenant purchase scheme for existing local authority houses along incremental purchase lines and for the repeal of provisions relating to tenant purchase in section 90 of the Housing Act 1966 .

This is the third commencement order in respect of the 2014 Act. The first commencement order ( S.I. No. 404 of 2014 ) brought into operation on 15 September 2014—

• Part 1 of the Act,

• section 34(d) in Part 3,

• most of Part 4 relating to the Housing Assistance Payments scheme (HAP), and

• HAP-related provisions in Part 5.

The second commencement order ( S.I. No. 121 of 2015 ) brought sections 6 to 19 of Part 2 of the 2014 Act into operation on 13 April 2015. These enactments deal, among other things, with breaches of local authority tenancy agreements and amend excluding order provisions of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 .