Housing Amendment Act, 1948
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Grants by Minister and housing authorities to public utility societies. |
20.—(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 Fifth Schedule to this Act, if:— | |
(a) the erection of the house or houses was commenced on or after the 1st day of November, 1947, 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 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 either by way of a grant of land as a site for such house or houses or by way of a grant of money in respect of such house or houses or partly in one such way and partly in the other such way, but in any case not exceeding in (as the case may be) the value of such land or the amount of such money or the total of such value and such amount the appropriate sum specified in the Fifth 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. |