Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952

Amendment of Second Schedule to Act of 1948.

19.—(1) The Second Schedule to the Act of 1948, as amended, is hereby further amended—

(a) by the substitution in the first column for “agricultural labourer or any other person who derives his livelihood solely or mainly from the pursuit of agriculture and is in occupation of land and buildings whose rateable value or the aggregate of whose rateable value does not exceed £50, reconstructing house in own occupation” of “agricultural labourer reconstructing house in own occupation in a rural area or any other person who derives his livelihood solely or mainly from the pursuit of agriculture and is in occupation of land whose rateable value or the aggregate of whose rateable value does not exceed £50, reconstructing house in own occupation”; and

(b) by the substitution of “100” for “80” in the second and third columns respectively under the reference to 4 rooms and by the substitution of “120” for“80” in the said columns under the reference to 5 or more rooms.

(2) This section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as on and from the 29th day of April, 1952, but the amendment effected by this section shall not affect any grant under section 16 of the Act of 1948 where the grant was allocated and notified to the applicant under the said section 16 before that date and reconstruction was begun before that date.