Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950
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PART III. Housing Generally. | ||
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Provision of houses for persons not of working classes. |
17.—(1) Subject to regulations made under this section, a housing authority may acquire land either by agreement with the consent of the Minister or compulsorily and may provide thereon or on any land acquired by them houses for sale or letting to persons irrespective of whether they are or are not members of the working classes or agricultural labourers, or sell or lease such land or any part of it to persons and public utility societies for the purpose and on the condition that such persons and societies shall erect and maintain thereon such number of houses as may be fixed by the housing authority and in accordance with plans approved by such authority. | |
(2) For the purposes of this section a housing authority shall— | ||
(a) in the case of the council of a county, have the powers and be subject to the obligations conferred and imposed upon a housing authority by the Labourers Acts, and | ||
(b) in every other case, have the powers and be subject to the obligations conferred and imposed upon a housing authority by the Housing of the Working Classes Acts. | ||
(3) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section, make, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to a housing authority erecting a house under subsection (1) of this section, a grant not exceeding the appropriate sum specified in the Second Schedule to this Act if— | ||
(a) erection is completed on or before the 1st day of April, 1952, and | ||
(b) the house complies with the rules set out in the First Schedule to the Act of 1932 as amended by section 14 of this Act. | ||
(4) The Minister shall not make a grant under this section in respect of a house for which a grant is or was made under any other enactment. | ||
(5) Any acquisition, sale or lease of land by a housing authority effected before the passing of this Act which would be valid if effected under subsection (1) of this section shall be and be deemed always to have been validly effected under the appropriate Acts mentioned in subsection (2) of this section. | ||
(6) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section. |