Housing Amendment Act, 1948

Grants by Minister and housing authorities to public utility societies in certain cases.

21.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section make, out of moneys to be provided by the Oireachtas, to any public utility society erecting one or more than one house for occupation by a person of the working classes or an agricultural labourer, a grant not exceeding the appropriate sum specified in the Sixth Schedule to this Act, if—

(a) erection commenced on or after the 1st day of November, 1945, and is completed on or before the 1st day of April, 1950; and,

(b) such house or houses complies or comply with the rules set forth in the First Schedule to the Act of 1932; and

(c) such house or houses was or were not occupied before the 1st day of November, 1947; and

(d) such public utility society undertakes with the Minister that such society will not sell such house or houses and will let such house or houses only at such rent and subject to such conditions as may be approved by the Minister.

(2) A housing authority shall, subject to regulations made under this section, make, to any public utility society erecting one or more than one house in respect of which a grant is made by the Minister under subsection (1) of this section a grant in money not exceeding the appropriate sum specified in the Sixth Schedule to this Act.

(3) For the purpose of making a grant under subsection (2) of this section a housing authority shall have the like powers of borrowing money as if the houses in respect of which the grants are made were erected by them under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts or the Labourers Acts.

(4) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section.