Housing Amendment Act, 1948

Grants by housing authorities to persons.

19.—(1) A housing authority shall, subject to regulations made under this section, make to any person erecting one or more than one house in the functional area of the authority, a grant not exceeding the appropriate sum mentioned in the second column of the Fourth Schedule to this Act and each such grant shall be made (subject to the said regulations) in ten successive annual instalments not exceeding the appropriate sum mentioned in the third column of that Schedule.

(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section a housing authority shall not make a grant under subsection (1) of this section in respect of the erection of a house unless:—

(a) such house complies with the rules set out in the First Schedule to the Act of 1932;

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

(c) the person erecting the house undertakes with the housing authority that, subject to such conditions as may be prescribed by regulations made under this section, he will not sell the house and that he will let the house subject to such conditions as may be so prescribed.

(3) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section, recoup to a housing authority an amount not exceeding two-thirds of a grant made under subsection (1) of this section by the authority.

(4) A housing authority shall not make a grant under this section in respect of a house in respect of which a grant was made by the Minister under section 5 of the Act of 1932, as amended by any subsequent enactment (including this Act) and not refunded.

(5) Where a grant was made by the Minister under section 16 of this Act, a housing authority shall not make a grant under this section in respect of the house.

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