Housing Amendment Act, 1948

PART III.

Financial Provisions.

Grants by Minister to persons and public utility societies.

16.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section make, out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas, to any person erecting or reconstructing or to any public utility society erecting, one or more than one house, a grant not exceeding the appropriate sum specified in the Second Schedule to this Act if—

(a) erection or reconstruction commence on or after the 1st day of November, 1947, and is completed on or before the 1st day of April, 1950;

(b) such house or houses complies or comply with the rules set out in the First Schedule to the Act of 1932;

(c) such house or houses is or are occupied when completed by

(i) in case such house or houses is or are erected by a public utility society—a member of that society.

(ii) in any other case—the person who erected or reconstructed such house.

(2) The Minister shall not make a grant under this section and under section 5 of the Act of 1932 as amended by any subsequent enactment (including this Act) in respect of a house.

(3) The Minister shall not make a grant under this section in respect of a house in respect of which he is prohibited from making a grant under subsection (3) of section 5 of the Act of 1932 as amended by section 4 of the Act of 1937.

(4) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section.