Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931

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Definitions.

2.—(1) In this Act—

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health;

the word “prescribed” means prescribed by the Minister;

the expression “unhealthy area” means an area the dwelling houses in which are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects unfit for human habitation or are by reason of their bad arrangement or the narrowness or bad arrangement of the streets, dangerous or injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the area and in which the other buildings, if any, are for a like reason dangerous or injurious to the health of such inhabitants;

the expression “clearance area” means an unhealthy area declared by a local authority to be a clearance area for the purposes of this Act;

the expression “improvement area” means an unhealthy area declared by a local authority to be an improvement area for the purposes of this Act;

the expression “clearance order” means an order made by a local authority under this Act ordering the demolition of buildings in a clearance area;

the expression “compulsory purchase order” means an order made under this Act authorising a local authority to acquire land compulsorily;

the expression “the Act of 1890” means the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890;

the expression “the Housing of the Working Classes Acts” means the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1921, and this Act in so far as it amends those Acts;

the expression “sanitary defects” includes lack of air space or of ventilation, darkness, dampness, absence of adequate and readily accessible water supply or sanitary accommodation or of other conveniences and inadequate paving or drainage of courts, yards or passages;

the expression “building byelaws” has the same meaning as in section 33 of the Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919 ;

the word “owner” in relation to any building or land means a person, other than a mortgagee not in possession, who is for the time being entitled to dispose of the fee simple of the building or land, whether in possession or reversion and includes also a person holding or entitled to the rents and profits of the building or land under a lease or agreement the unexpired term whereof exceeds three years;

the word “dwelling house” includes any yard, garden, outhouses, and appurtenances belonging thereto or usually enjoyed therewith;

the word “street” includes any court, alley, passage, square or row of houses, whether a thoroughfare or not;

the expression “person having control of the house” has the same meaning as the word “owner” in the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878.