Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952

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Grant for provision and installation of private water supply and sewerage facilities.

7.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section, make, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to a person providing and installing in a dwelling-house a private water supply and sewerage facilities, a grant not exceeding £50, if—

(a) the dwelling-house is situate in an area where at the date of the application for the grant, no public piped water supply or sewerage scheme has been provided or is being provided, and

(b) the provision and installation of the water supply and sewerage facilities commence on or after the 29th day of April, 1952, and are completed on or before 1st day of April, 1954, and comply with the conditions set out in the said regulations.

(2) Where the Minister makes a grant under this section in respect of the provision and installation of a private water supply and sewerage facilities in a dwelling-house, the valuation of the tenement consisting of or including such house shall not, on any valuation or revision of the valuation thereof coming into force within seven years after the completion of such provision and installation, be increased on account of any increase in the value of such tenement arising from such provision and installation.

(3) Subsection (2) of section 6 of the Act of 1950 shall not apply in relation to a grant under this section.

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