Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932
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Grants by urban authorities to public utility societies. |
9.—(1) An urban authority may, subject to the prescribed regulations, make to any public utility society erecting a house in respect of which a grant is made by the Minister under paragraph (i) of sub-section (1) of section 5 of this Act, a grant either by way of a grant of land as a site for such house or by way of a grant of money in respect of such house or partly in one such way and partly in the other such way, but in any case not exceeding in (as the case may be) the value of such land or the amount of such money or the total of such value and such amount one-ninth of the cost of the provision of such house or fifty pounds, whichever shall be the lesser. | |
(2) For the purposes of this section, an urban authority shall have the like powers of acquiring land, of raising expenses and of borrowing money as are conferred on them by Part III. of the Housing of the Working Classes Act, 1890, as amended by any subsequent enactment. | ||
(3) An urban authority may, with the sanction of the Minister, appropriate for the purposes of this section any land held by them notwithstanding that such land may have been acquired by them for another purpose. |