Housing (Amendment) Act, 1956

Grants for provision and installation of private water supply and private sewerage facilities.

11.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section, make, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to a person providing and installing in a dwelling-house a private water supply, a grant not exceeding £40, if—

(i) the dwelling-house is situate in an area where, at the date of the application for the grant, no public piped water supply has been provided or is being provided, and

(ii) the provision and installation of the water supply commence on or after the day of the passing of this Act and are completed on or before the 1st day of April, 1958, and comply with the conditions set out in the said regulations.

(2) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance, and subject to regulations made under this section, make, out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas, to a person providing and installing in a dwelling-house private sewerage facilities, a grant not exceeding £20, if—

(i) the dwelling-house is situate in an area where, at the date of the application for the grant, no public sewerage scheme has been provided or is being provided, and

(ii) the provision and installation of the sewerage facilities commence on or after the day of the passing of this Act and are completed on or before the 1st day of April, 1958, and comply with the conditions set out in the said regulations.

(3) Where the Minister makes a grant under this section, the valuation of the tenement consisting of or including the dwelling-house shall not, on any valuation or revision of the valuation thereof coming into force within seven years after the completion of the provision and installation, be increased on account of any increase in the value of such tenement arising from the provision and installation.

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

(5) The reference to the 1st day of April, 1956, contained (by virtue of subsection (2) of section 6 of the Act of 1954) in paragraph (b) of subsection (1) of section 7 of the Act of 1952 shall be construed as a reference to the 1st day of April, 1957.

(6) A grant shall not be made under section 7 of the Act of 1952 and under this section in respect of the same dwelling-house.

(7) Subsection (2) of section 6 of the Act of 1950 shall not apply in relation to a grant under this section.

(8) A grant made under this section shall be a relevant grant for the purposes of sections 9, 10 and 11 of the Act of 1952.

(9) Subsection (5) of this section shall have and be deemed to have had effect as on and from the 1st day of April, 1956.