Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952

Amendment of section 6 of Act of 1932

14.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 6 of the Act of 1932, as amended, is hereby further amended by the substitution for subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) of the following:—

“(i) not exceeding sixty-six and two-thirds per centum of such annual loan charges, where the Minister is satisfied that such houses are used for the accommodation of persons displaced by the collapse or destruction of their former dwellings or by any operations of such local authority under the said Acts or sections 75 to 78 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, as incorporated with any enactment, section 20 of the Dublin Improvement Acts Amendment Act, 1864, or Part II of the Dublin Corporation Act, 1890, or are used for the accommodation of persons in need of re-housing on medical, compassionate or other similar grounds if the circumstances of such last mentioned persons would not permit them to be so re-housed otherwise.”

(2) So much of subsection (4) of section 6 of the Act of 1932 as limits the amount of annual loan charges shall not apply to the Right Honourable the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Burgesses of Dublin or the Lord Mayor, Aldermen and Burgesses of Cork.

(3) Subsection (2) of this section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as on and from the 1st day of April, 1952.