Housing (Amendment) Act, 1942

Validation of certain grants.

4.—(1) Where—

(a) a grant purporting to be under paragraph (d), (g), or (h), as the case may be, of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Principal Act was made before the passing of this Act, and

(b) such grant would have been a proper grant if it were provided by paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Labourers Act, 1919, that a person carrying on a shop should be regarded for the purposes of that paragraph as working at a trade,

such grant shall be and be deemed always to have been a proper grant.

(2) Where—

(a) a grant purporting to be under paragraph (d), (g), or (h), as the case may be, of sub-section (1) of section 5 of the Principal Act was allocated, but not made, before the passing of this Act, and

(b) such grant could properly be made if it were provided by paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Labourers Act, 1919, that a person carrying on a shop should be regarded for the purposes of that paragraph as working at a trade,

it shall be lawful to make such grant as if it were provided as aforesaid by the said paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of section 1 of the Labourers Act, 1919.