Housing Amendment Act, 1948
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Rates of wages conditions of labour and enforcement of undertakings. |
45.—(1) The Minister under section 16 or 20 of this Act, or the housing authority, under section 19 of this Act, shall not make a grant in respect of the erection of a house where it is shown to his or their satisfaction that throughout such erection rates of wages have not been paid or conditions of labour observed at least as advantageous to the persons employed in such erection as the appropriate rates of wages or conditions of labour generally recognised by trade unions, in the area in which such house is erected, at the commencement of such erection and the Minister or the housing authority may as a condition of his or their making any such grant require a person or a public utility society (as the case may be) to enter into any undertaking which seems proper to the Minister or to such housing authority as to the rates of wages to be paid or the conditions of labour to be observed in such erection. | |
(2) Where the Minister or a housing authority has or have made to any person or public utility society under section 16 , 19 or 20 of this Act any grant on condition that the person or the society receiving the grant enter into an undertaking with him or them and such undertaking has not been complied with, the following provisions shall have effect:— | ||
(a) such person or public utility society (as the case may be) shall be liable to repay the Minister or the housing authority the amount of such grant; | ||
(b) such amount may be recovered from such person or public utility society (as the case may be) as a civil debt in any court of competent jurisdiction. |