Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952

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Amendment of section 8 of Act of 1950.

22.—Section 8 of the Act of 1950 is hereby amended:—

(a) by the substitution of the following for subsection (2)—

“(2) This section does not apply to a person who is eligible under section 16 of the Act of 1948 for a grant for reconstructing a house in his own occupation.”

(b) by the substitution of the following for subsection (4)—

“(4) Subsections (2), (4), (6), (7) and (8) of section 5 of the Act of 1937, as amended, shall apply in respect of grants under this section as if those grants were grants under the said section 5, and the council of a county shall have, for the purposes of this section, the like powers as are conferred on an urban authority by the said subsection (7).”