Housing Act, 1970

Making of supplementary grants (borough or urban district) by county council.

7.—(1) In this section “relevant section” means any of the following sections: section 26 (exclusive of subsections (7) and (8)), section 27, section 28 and section 29 of the Act of 1966.

(2) References in a relevant section to the housing authority shall, in the application of the section to a borough (not being a borough designated by the Minister by regulations as excluded with respect to the section from the application of this paragraph), be taken as not referring to the corporation of the borough and as referring instead to the council of the county in which the borough is situate.

(3) (a) References in a relevant section to the housing authority shall, in the application of the section to an urban district (not being an urban district designated by the Minister by regulations as excluded with respect to the section from the application of this paragraph), be taken as not referring to the council of the urban district and as referring instead to the council of the county in which the urban district is situate.

(b) Where—

(i) under an agreement made between the council of a county and the council of an urban district on or after the 13th day of June, 1969, and before the passing of this Act a grant was made by the council of the county, and

(ii) apart from the agreement, the grant would have fallen to be made under a relevant section by the council of the urban district, the following provisions shall have effect:

(I) the grant shall be as valid as if, when it was made, paragraph (a) of this subsection was in operation, and the urban district stood not designated by the Minister by regulations as excluded with respect to the relevant section from the application of that paragraph,

(II) subsection (4) of this section shall apply and be deemed always to have applied for the purpose of enabling the expenses of the council of the county in relation to the grant to be charged.

(4) The following provisions shall apply with respect to the expenses under a relevant section of a housing authority who are the council of a county:

(a) in the case of a county with respect to which paragraph (a) of section 8 of the Act of 1966 applies, the exclusion of boroughs and urban districts contained in that paragraph shall be taken as not extending to any borough which stands not designated by regulations under subsection (2) of this section as excluded with respect to the relevant section or to any urban district which stands not designated by regulations under subsection (3) of this section as so excluded,

(b) in the case of a county with respect to which paragraph (b) of the said section 8 applies and which includes an area or areas in relation to which this paragraph applies—

(i) there shall firstly be taken each area in the county consisting of an area or areas in relation to which this paragraph applies and the rural sanitary area adjoining it or them and the expenses under the relevant section in respect of that combined area shall be charged on it,

(ii) other expenses under the relevant section shall be charged as provided for by paragraph (b) (i) of section 8 of the Act of 1966.

In this paragraph “area in relation to which this paragraph applies” means an area consisting of—

(i) a borough standing not designated by regulations under subsection (2) of this section as excluded with respect to the relevant section or,

(ii) an urban district standing not designated by regulations under subsection (3) of this section as so excluded.