Housing (Amendment) Act, 1944

SCHEDULE.

Rules Governing Recoupments.

1. In these Rules, the expression “the appropriate contributions” means, in relation to assistance given by a local authority to a public utility society in one or more of the ways mentioned in paragraphs (b), (c), (d) and (e) of section 4 of this Act, the contributions which could be made by the Minister in accordance with section 6 of the Principal Act if the local authority had themselves provided the relevant houses on money borrowed by them to an amount equal to the cost, determined in accordance with the regulations made for the purposes of this Act, of the provision by the public utility society of such houses.

2. Where the relevant assistance is given solely in the way mentioned in paragraph (b) of section 4 of this Act, the Minister may make such recoupments as he thinks proper in respect of such assistance, subject to the limitation that the capital value of the recoupments shall not exceed the capital value of the appropriate contributions.

3. Where the relevant assistance is given solely in one or more of the ways mentioned in paragraphs (c) (d) and (e) of section 4 of this Act, the Minister may make such recoupment as he thinks proper in respect of the value, determined in accordance with the regulations made for the purposes of this Act, of such assistance, subject to the limitation that the recoupment shall not exceed the capital value of the appropriate contributions.

4. Where the relevant assistance is given partly in the way mentioned in paragraph (b) of section 4 of this Act and partly in one or more of the ways mentioned in paragraphs (c), (d) and (e) of that section, the Minister may either—

(a) make such recoupments as he thinks proper in respect of the assistance given in the way mentioned in the said paragraph (b), subject to the limitation that the capital value of the recoupments shall not exceed the capital value of the appropriate contributions, or

(b) (i) make such recoupment as he thinks proper in respect of the value, determined in accordance with the regulations made for the purposes of this Act, of the assistance given in one or more of the ways mentioned in the said paragraphs (c), (d) and (e), subject to the limitation that the recoupment shall not exceed the capital value of the appropriate contributions, and

(ii) if that recoupment is less by any amount than the capital value of the appropriate contributions, make such further recoupments as he thinks proper in respect of the assistance given in the way mentioned in the said paragraph (b), subject to the limitation that the capital value of the further recoupments shall not exceed the said amount.