Housing Amendment Act, 1948

Amendment of section 6 of the Act of 1932.

23.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 6 of the Act of 1932 is hereby amended—

(a) by the substitution in paragraph (a) and in paragraph (b) of the word “fifty” for the word “thirty-five”, and

(b) by the insertion in subparagraph (i) of paragraph (a) after the word “displaced” of the words “by the collapse or destruction of their former dwellings or”, and after the word “Acts” of the words “or sections 75 to 78 of the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, as incorporated with any enactment, section 20 of the Dublin Improvement Acts Amendment Act, 1864, or Part II of the Dublin Corporation Act, 1890”.

(2) Where, before the commencement of this section, the Minister has—

(a) made a contribution towards the annual loan charges incurred by a housing authority in respect of money borrowed by them for the provision under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts or the Labourers Acts of houses to which section 6 of the Act of 1932 applies, and

(b) determined the period (in this subsection called “the first period”) during which such contribution shall be payable,

the Minister may, if he thinks fit, extend the first period by a further period but so that in no case shall the sum of the two periods when added together exceed fifty years.