Housing Act, 1929
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Grants which may be made by the Minister. |
3.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance make out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas— | |
(a) to any person erecting one or more houses to which this Act applies a grant not exceeding £45 in respect of each such house; | ||
(b) to any public utility society erecting one or more houses to which this Act applies a grant not exceeding £60 in respect of each such house; | ||
(c) to any local authority erecting one or more houses in pursuance of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1921, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister, a grant not exceeding £60 in respect of each such house; | ||
(d) to any local authority erecting one or more houses in pursuance of the Labourers (Ireland) Acts, 1883 to 1919, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister, a grant not exceeding £50 in respect of each such house. | ||
(2) A local authority erecting one or more houses in pursuance of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1921, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister may undertake with the Minister that every such house shall only be disposed of by way of sale or lease or letting at such price or rent and subject to such conditions as the Minister shall approve, and that such local authority will either in the local financial year in which this Act is passed or in the next subsequent local financial year raise for the purposes of such scheme a rate not less than one shilling in the pound and will apply the proceeds of such rate towards meeting the expenses of the execution of such scheme; and where a local authority so undertakes in respect of any such scheme it shall be obligatory on such local authority to carry out and fulfil such undertaking, and the Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance make out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas a grant (in substitution for and not in addition to a grant under the foregoing sub-section of this section) not exceeding £72 in respect of each house erected in pursuance of such scheme. | ||
(3) Whenever the Minister is satisfied that a house in respect of which a grant may be made under this Act was erected for occupation by a particular person in substitution for another house which, while occupied by such person, was rendered uninhabitable by coast erosion, the grant (if any) made by the Minister under this Act in respect of such house may exceed the appropriate limit specified in the first sub-section of this section, but shall not exceed such of the limits specified in Part I (exclusive of the Note appended thereto) of the Second Schedule to the Housing Act, 1925 (No. 12 of 1925), as is appropriate to such grant. | ||
(4) Sub-section (3) of section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925 (No. 12 of 1925) as amended by section 3 of the Housing Act, 1928 (No. 31 of 1928) is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is hereby enacted that the aggregate amount of grants made or to be made under the said section 3 of the Housing Act, 1925 , as amended as aforesaid, together with the aggregate amount of grants to be made under this section shall not exceed the sum of One Million and Fifty Thousand Pounds. | ||
(5) The Minister shall not make a grant under this section in respect of— | ||
(a) a house erected in accordance with a reinstatement condition within the meaning of section 10 of the Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923 (No. 15 of 1923); | ||
(b) a house which is erected on or on any part of the site of a building in respect of the destruction of which compensation has been awarded under the said Damage to Property (Compensation) Act, 1923 , or in respect of the destruction of which a report has been made under section 15 of the said Act. |