Housing (Gaeltacht) (Amendment) Act, 1959
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Loans. |
5.—(1) A loan under subsection (1) of section 8 of the Act of 1929 shall not, where the grant under that Act in relation to which the loan is given is a building grant, exceed the amount of the grant. | |
(2) A loan under subsection (1) of section 8 of the Act of 1929 shall not, where the grant under that Act in relation to which the loan is given is an improving grant or a special extension grant, exceed one-half of the amount of the estimated cost of the work towards which the grant was made, and the aggregate in any such case of the loan and the grant shall not exceed that amount. | ||
(3) A loan under subsection (1) of section 8 of the Act of 1929 shall not, where the grant under that Act in relation to which the loan is given is a holiday chalet building grant, exceed £200, and the aggregate in any such case of the loan and the grant shall not exceed the estimated cost of the chalet. | ||
(4) Section 8 of the Act of 1929, as amended by subsection (2) of section 3 of the Act of 1953, is hereby further amended— | ||
(a) by the insertion in subsection (1) before “a sanitation grant” of “a hostel building grant or”; | ||
(b) by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following subsection : | ||
“(1A) Where— | ||
(i) a person to whom a holiday chalet building grant has been granted proposes to build another holiday chalet in any of the areas for the time being determined to be Gaeltacht areas by order under section 2 of the Ministers and Secretaries (Amendment) Act, 1956 (No. 21 of 1956), and | ||
(ii) the Minister is satisfied that such person is so circumstanced that he is unable to undertake the building of the other chalet without monetary assistance, and | ||
(iii) no certificate under this subsection, or one such certificate only, has previously been issued in respect of such person, | ||
the Minister may, subject to the provisions of this Act and regulations thereunder, issue to the Commissioners a certificate in the prescribed form that such person may be granted a loan under this Act of such sum, not exceeding three hundred pounds or three-quarters of the estimated cost of the other chalet (whichever is the less), as the Minister shall think proper and shall specify in such certificate.”; and | ||
(c) by the substitution in subsection (2) of “subsection (1) or subsection (1A) of this section” for “the foregoing subsection”. |