Housing Amendment Act, 1948

Grants by Minister to persons and public utility societies in certain cases.

17.—(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 person or public utility society erecting one or more than one house, a grant not exceeding the appropriate sum specified in the Third Schedule to this Act if—

(a) erection commenced on or after the 1st day of November, 1945, and is completed on or before the 1st day of April, 1950;

(b) such house or houses complies or comply with the rules set out in the First Schedule to the Act of 1932;

(c) such house or houses was or were not occupied on or before the 1st day of November, 1947;

(d) such house or houses is or are occupied when completed by

(i) in case such house or houses is or are erected by a public utility society—a member of that society,

(ii) in any other case—the person who erected such house.

(2) A grant under this section together with a grant under section 5 of the Act of 1932 as amended by any subsequent enactment (including this Act) shall not exceed the appropriate sum specified in the Third Schedule to this Act.

(3) The Minister shall not make a grant under this section in respect of a house in respect of which he is prohibited from making a grant under subsection (3) of section 5 of the Act of 1932 as amended by section 4 of the Act of 1937.

(4) The Minister may make regulations for the purposes of this section.