Housing (Amendment) Act, 1939

Remission of rates.

3.—(1) A local authority having power to levy rates shall, in every of the first seven local financial years after the valuation for rating purposes of a house, in respect of which a grant shall have been made by the Minister for Local Government and Public Health to a person or a public utility society (within the meaning of the Principal Act) under paragraph (k) of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Principal Act (which said paragraph (k) is inserted in the said sub-section (1) by paragraph (d) of the immediately preceding section of this Act), remit two-thirds of the rates leviable by the local authority in respect of that house in any such year.

(2) This section shall be deemed to have come into force on the 3rd day of July, 1936.