S.I. No. 301/1990 - Housing (New House Grants Etc.) (Amendment) Regulations, 1990.

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (New House Grants etc.) (Amendment) Regulations, 1990.

2. The Housing (New House Grants etc.) Regulations, 1990 (

S.I. No. 34 of 1990

) are hereby amended by the substitution for paragraph (i) of sub-article (1) of article 6 of the following paragraph

"(i) in the case of an application received by the Minister on or after the 1st day of April, 1990, in respect of a house the contract for the purchase of which was made, or, if the house is being built on a site the applicant has available, the foundations of which were completed, on or after that date, unless the Minister is furnished with—

(i) the number of a certificate of authorisation of, or the expiry date of a tax clearance certificate issued by the Collector General of the Revenue Commissioners to, the contractor building the house or, where there is more than one such contractor, such number or expiry date, as the case may be, in respect of each contractor, and

(ii) a statement that, to the best of the person's knowledge, his tax affairs are in order;".

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for the Environment

this 13th day of December, 1990.

PADRAIG FLYNN,

Minister for the Environment.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this

13th day of December, 1990.

ALBERT REYNOLDS,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations amend the Housing (New House Grants etc.) Regulations, 1990, in relation to the tax requirements applicable in the case of grants for new houses.

S.I. No. 301 of 1990.

HOUSING (NEW HOUSE GRANTS ETC.) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1990.

The Minister for the Environment, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by

Section 5

of the

Housing Act, 1966

(No. 21 of 1966) and by

Section 4

of the

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1979

(No. 27 of 1979) as amended by

Section 25

of the

Housing Act, 1988

(No. 28 of 1988), with the consent of the Minister for Finance, hereby makes the following Regulations