Housing Act, 1970

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Amendment of section 26 of Act of 1966.

10.—(1) Subsection (1) of section 26 of the Act of 1966 is hereby amended by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) the total, determined by the housing authority, of the income of the person and the income of his spouse (if any) does not exceed the appropriate limit, that is to say:

(i) in case the supplementary grant is made in respect of a house the erection of which commenced before the 1st day of August, 1970—one thousand and forty-five pounds per annum,

(ii) in case it is made in respect of a house the erection of which commenced on or after the 1st day of August, 1970, and before the coming into operation of the first regulations made pursuant to the next subparagraph—one thousand two hundred and fifty pounds per annum, and

(iii) in any other case—the limit for the time being specified by the Minister, by regulations made with the consent of the Minister for Finance, as the appropriate limit for the purposes of this paragraph.”

(2) The following subsection is hereby substituted for subsection (2) of section 26 of the Act of 1966:

“(2) A housing authority, in determining the income of a person applying for a grant under this section or of his spouse, may, if the person satisfies the authority that he or his spouse maintains at his or her own expense a dependent person, make such allowance as they think fit, subject to the appropriate limit, that is to say:

(a) in case the supplementary grant is made in respect of a house the erection of which commenced before the coming into operation of the first regulations made pursuant to the next paragraph—one hundred pounds in respect of each person so maintained, or four hundred pounds in the aggregate, whichever is the less, and

(b) in any other case—the limit for the time being specified by the Minister, by regulations made with the consent of the Minister for Finance, as the appropriate limit for the purposes of this subsection.”