Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919

Construction.

10 & 11 Vict. c. 34.

17 & 18 Vict. c. 103.

33. This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1908, and any provisions of this Part of this Act which supersede or amend any provisions of the Act of 1890 shall be deemed to be part of that Part of the Act of 1890 in which the provisions superseded or amended are contained, and references in this Part of this Act to any provision of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1908, shall be construed as references to that provision as amended by any subsequent enactment including this Part of this Act.

In this Part of this Act—

The expression “houses for the working classes” has the same meaning as the expression “lodging-houses for the working classes” has in the Act of 1890;

The expression “sale” includes sale in consideration of an annual rentcharge or fee farm rent, and the expression “sell” has a corresponding meaning;

The expression “public utility society” means a society registered under the Industrial and Provident Societies Acts, 1893 to 1913, the rules whereof prohibit the payment of any interest or dividend at a rate exceeding six per cent. per annum;

The expression “housing trust” means a corporation or body of persons which, by the terms of its constituent instrument, is required to devote the whole of its funds, including any surplus which may arise from its operations, to the provision of houses for persons, the majority of whom are, in fact, members of the working classes, and to other purposes incidental thereto;

The expression “building byelaws” includes byelaws made by any sanitary authority under section forty-one of the Public Health (Ireland) Act, 1878, as amended by any subsequent enactment with respect to new buildings and new streets, and any enactments in section one hundred and nine of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, or section forty-three of the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or in any local Acts dealing with construction of new buildings, including the drainage thereof, and the laying out and construction and drainage of new streets, and any byelaws made with respect to such matters under any such local Act;

The expression “Housing Acts” means the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1908, and this Act so far as it amends those Acts.