Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950

Grant by housing authority for house purchase or erection.

7.—(1) A housing authority may, in accordance with a scheme approved by the Minister, make, to a person erecting or purchasing a house in respect of which a grant is made under section 16 of the Act of 1948 or section 6 of this Act, a grant not exceeding the amount of the grant under such section.

(2) For the purposes of this section a housing authority shall have the like powers of borrowing as are conferred on such authority for the purposes of the Housing of the Working Classes Acts or the Labourers Acts.