Housing (Management and Letting) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 336/1953
• Year: 1953

S.I. No. 336 of 1953.

HOUSING (MANAGEMENT AND LETTING) (AMENDMENT) REGULATIONS, 1953.

The Minister for Local Government, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1948 (No. 1 of 1948), the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950 (No. 25 of 1950) and the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952 (No. 16 of 1952), and of all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Regulations :— 1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Management and Letting) (Amendment) Regulations, 1953.

(2) The Housing (Management and Letting) Regulations, 1950 ( S.I. No. 47 of 1950 ) and these Regulations shall be read and construed as one and may be cited together as the Housing (Management and Letting) Regulations, 1950 and 1953. 2. The Housing (Management and Letting) Regulations, 1950 ( S.I. No. 47 of 1950 ) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) by the addition at the end of the definition of " reserved house " of the following words : " or under section 18 of the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950 (No. 25 of 1950) " ;

(b) in Article 2 thereof the following shall be substituted for the definition of the expression " member of the special class ":—

the expression " member of the special class " means a person with a family living—

(i) in overcrowded conditions where one or more than one member of the family is suffering from tuberculosis ;

(ii) in a one-roomed dwelling where one or more than one member of the family is suffering from tuberculosis or where one or more than one member of the family (exclusive of the parents) has attained the age of twelve years ; or

(iii) in a dwelling which has been condemned as unfit for human habitation ;

(c) in Article 2 thereof the following additional definition shall be inserted :—

the expression " overcrowded conditions " means conditions in which at any time the number of persons ordinarily sleeping in a house or cottage intended or used for occupation by the working classes or agricultural labourers and the number of rooms in the house or cottage either—

(i) are such that any two of those persons being persons twelve years old or more of opposite sexes and not being persons living together as husband and wife must sleep in the same room; or

(ii) are such that the free air space, in any room used as a sleeping apartment, for any person is less than four hundred cubic feet (the height of the room, if it exceeds eight feet, being taken to be eight feet, for the purpose...