Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931
|
Power of local authority to let a vacant house in respect of which expenses are due. |
22.—(1) A local authority, to whom any expenses are due in respect of the execution of works to a house under section 20 of this Act which is or has become vacant, may if satisfied that payment of such expenses cannot be recovered from the person having control of the house and after giving to such person twenty-one days' notice in writing of their intention so to do, make in the name of such person a letting of the house to a suitable person at such rent and for such period and on such terms and conditions as to the local authority shall seem proper having regard to the circumstances and to the nature of any previous tenancy in the house. | |
(2) Every such notice as is referred to in the foregoing sub-section shall state the rent period for which and the terms and conditions on which the local authority propose to make a letting of the house. | ||
(3) For the purposes of this section and for those purposes only the local authority shall be deemed to be the agent of the person having control of the house with power to make a letting without his consent and the word “house” includes in the case of a house habitually let in separate apartments, a part of a house. | ||
(4) Any person aggrieved by a proposal of a local authority to make a letting of a house under this section may, within twenty-one days after the date of the service of the notice referred to in sub-section (1) of this section, appeal to the Circuit Court, who may make such order in the matter as to the Court shall seem just and reasonable but the decision of the Court shall be final and conclusive and not subject to any appeal. |