Housing (Amendment) Act, 1942
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Appropriation of certain houses for accommodation of persons leaving homes injured in certain ways, etc. |
3.—(1) A local authority may appropriate any house provided by them under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1931, or the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1941, and for the time being in their possession for the accommodation of any person who leaves his home on account of injuries thereto caused in any of the ways mentioned in sub-section (1) of section 2 of the Neutrality (War Damage to Property) Act, 1941 (No. 24 of 1941). | |
(2) Where the application of sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Principal Act in relation to a house provided by a local authority under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1931, and appropriated in pursuance of this section is governed by sub-paragraph (ii) of paragraph (a) of the said sub-section (1), the reference in the said sub-paragraph (ii) to thirty-three and one-third per centum of the annual loan charges shall be construed as a reference to sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of those charges. | ||
(3) Sub-section (5) of section 6 of the Principal Act and the regulations for the time being in force for the purposes of that sub-section shall not apply in relation to a house appropriated in pursuance of this section. | ||
(4) Where a house provided under the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1941, is appropriated in pursuance of this section, the following provisions shall have effect so long as such appropriation continues, that is to say:— | ||
(a) neither section 29 of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, nor any regulations made under that section shall apply in relation to the house, | ||
(b) the house shall not be capable of being purchased under the Labourers Act, 1936 (No. 24 of 1936). | ||
(5) This section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as on and from the 26th day of August, 1940. |