Housing Act, 1925

Time and method for payment of grants.

4.—(1) Every grant made to a person or public utility society by the Minister under this Act shall be paid in such manner as may be prescribed from time to time and the decision of the Minister as to whether any condition or regulation has or has not been complied with shall be final.

(2) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) of this section, no grant shall be paid by the Minister to a person or public utility society in respect of the erection or reconstruction of a house, unless and until such erection or reconstruction shall have been certified by an officer appointed by the Minister for the purpose (in this section called the “appointed officer”) or (in the case of an appeal to the Minister from a refusal by the appointed officer so to certify) by the Minister, to have been completed in a proper and workmanlike manner.

(3) The Minister may decide to pay a grant to a person or public utility society in instalments each of which instalments is to be paid on the completion of a specified portion of the erection or reconstruction of a house and no such instalment shall be paid unless and until such specified portion shall have been certified by the appointed officer or (in the case of an appeal to the Minister from a refusal by the appointed officer so to certify) by the Minister, to have been completed in a proper and workmanlike manner.

(4) Every grant made to a local authority by the Minister under this Act shall be paid in instalments in such manner as the Minister shall direct, so that each instalment shall be paid on the completion of a specified portion of the erection or reconstruction of the houses in respect of which the grant is made:

Provided that the first of such instalments may be paid when the local authority has entered into a contract, approved by the Minister for such erection or reconstruction.