Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931

Power of Minister to prescribe forms, etc., and to dispense with advertisements and notices.

45.—(1) The Minister may by order make regulations prescribing anything which by the Housing of the Working Classes Acts is required to be prescribed and also the form of any notice advertisement or other document and the scale of any map which is required or authorised to be used or given under or for the purposes of the said Acts.

(2) The Minister may dispense with the publication of advertisements or the service of notices required to be published or served by a local authority under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, if he is satisfied that there is reasonable cause for dispensing with the publication or service thereof.

(3) Any such dispensation may be given by the Minister either before or after the time at which the advertisement is required to be published or the notice is required to be served and either unconditionally or upon such conditions as to the publication of other advertisements or the service of other notices or otherwise as the Minister thinks fit, due care being taken by the Minister to prevent the interests of any persons being prejudiced by the dispensation.

(4) Every regulation made by the Minister under this section shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made, and if a resolution is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat annulling such regulation, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done under such regulation.