Housing Amendment Act, 1948
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Prohibition of demolition of certain habitable houses. |
8.—(1) A person shall not demolish in whole or in part or use otherwise than as a dwellinghouse any habitable house unless he has the permission, given under subsection (1) of section 7 of this Act, of the housing authority in whose functional area the habitable house is situate or the permission of the Minister given under subsection (2) of section 7 of this Act. | |
(2) A person who contravenes subsection (1) of this section shall be guilty of an offence under this section and shall be liable on summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds (together with, in the case of a continuing offence, a fine not exceeding five pounds for every day on which the offence is continued) or, at the discretion of the court, imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or both such fine and imprisonment. | ||
(3) This section shall continue in force until the 31st day of December, 1950, and shall then expire. |