S.I. No. 87/1959 - Housing (Loan Charges Contributions) Regulations, 1959.

S.I. No. 87 of 1959.

HOUSING (LOAN CHARGES CONTRIBUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 1959.

The Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 14 of the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1958 (No. 27 of 1958), hereby makes the following regulations: —

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Loan Charges Contributions) Regulations, 1959.

2. In these Regulations —

" the Minister " means the Minister for Local Government

" the Act means " the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1958 (No. 27 of 1958) ;

" housing authority " means the Council of a County ;

" scheme " means a scheme approved by the Minister under article 4 of these Regulations for the provision of cottages or other housing accommodation.

3. A contribution under section 14 of the Act shall not be payable for a house in respect of which a grant has been or will be paid under section 24 of the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952 , (No. 16 of 1952).

4.—(1) Cottages or other housing accommodation as respects which a contribution under section 14 of the Act is sought shall be :—

(a) provided in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister ;

(b) completed in a proper and workmanlike manner in accordance with such plans and specifications as may be approved by the Minister ;

(c) open to inspection when required by an authorised officer of the Minister.

(2) In the construction of such cottages or other housing accommodation materials and appliances manufactured or produced in Ireland and conforming with the current standard quality for the particular work shall be used as far as possible.

5. The amount of any money borrowed by a housing authority in respect of a scheme shall for the purposes of section 14 of the Act be deemed to be whichever of the following amounts is the lesser —

(a) the amount of any money borrowed by the housing authority for the purpose of the scheme, or,

(b) an amount equal to the number of separate tenements provided under the scheme multiplied by —

(i) where each tenement is provided with a piped water supply and sewage disposal system, £1,500 ;

(ii) in any other case, £1,000.

6. Any contribution to annual loan charges payable to a housing authority by the Minister under section 14 of the Act shall be payable either in one sum or in instalments according as the Minister shall determine.

7. Unless the Minister in any case otherwise determines, a contribution to annual loan charges under section 14 of the Act in respect of a loan borrowed by a housing authority for the purposes of a scheme shall not commence to be payable until the year in which the annual loan charges paid by such authority in respect of such loan first include sums in repayment of principal.

8. In addition to any other accounts which they are required to keep, the housing authority shall keep a separate revenue account with a distinguishing name in respect of each scheme and shall cause :—

(a) to be credited to such account in each financial year —

(i) the rents received (inclusive of rates) in respect of any cottages or other housing accommodation provided under the scheme, and,

(ii) any other income which may properly be credited to the said account ;

(b) to be debited to such account in each financial year —

(i) the sums required for the payment of interest and repayment of principal in respect of any money borrowed by them for the purposes of the scheme which may properly be debited to the said account;

(ii) the rates, taxes, rents or other charges payable by them in respect of any land leased and cottages or other housing accommodation provided under the scheme, including any money payable by way of rent, in respect of any land acquired by them for some other purpose and used for the purposes of the scheme;

(iii) the annual premium payable in respect of the insurance against fire of cottages or other housing accommodation provided under the scheme;

(iv) the expenditure incurred in respect of supervision and management of the cottages or other housing accommodation provided under the scheme ;

(v) the expenditure incurred in connection with the repair, improvement or maintenance of cottages or other housing accommodation provided under the scheme ; and

(vi) any other expenses which may properly be debited to the account.

9.—(1) Each such revenue account as aforesaid shall be made up and audited in like manner and subject to the same provisions, as the accounts of the housing authority.

(2) After the conclusion of each local financial year the housing authority shall forward to the Minister a copy of each such revenue account as audited by the local government auditor.

GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this Twenty-first day of May One Thousand Nine Hundred and Fifty-nine.

NEIL T. BLANEY,

Minister for Local Government.

The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.

Dated this 21st day of May, 1959.

SÉAMAS Ó RIAIN,

Minister for Finance.

EXPLANATORY NOTE.

These Regulations are made for the purposes of section 14 of the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1958 which empowers the Minister for Local Government with the consent of the Minister for Finance to make contributions in accordance with the said section and these Regulations to the annual loan charges incurred by a housing authority in respect of money borrowed for the provision under the Labourers Acts or under section 24 of the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950 of certain cottages or other housing accommodation.