The Housing (Loan Charges Contributions) Regulations, 1932

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 96/1932
• Year: 1932

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS. 1932. No. 96.

THE HOUSING (LOAN CHARGES CONTRIBUTIONS) REGULATIONS, 1932.

DEPARTMENT OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND PUBLIC HEALTH.

The Minister for Local Government and Public Health, in exercise of the powers vested in him by section 14 of the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932 , does hereby make the following regulations, that is to say:— 1. These regulations may be cited as the Housing (Loan Charges Contributions) Regulations, 1932. 2. The Interpretation Act, 1923 , applies to the interpretation of these regulations in like manner as it applies to the interpretation of an Act of the Oireachtas passed after the 1st day of January, 1924. 3. In these regulations the expression "the Minister" means the Minister for Local Government and Public Health. 4. The payment of contributions to annual loan charges by the Minister under section 6 of the Act in respect of the provision by local authorities of houses for the working classes and agricultural labourers shall be conditional upon the fulfilment by such local authorities of the following conditions:—

(1) The houses shall be provided in accordance with a scheme approved of by the Minister.

(2) If the houses are houses proposed to be provided by a local authority under Part III of the Act of 1890, for the purpose of accommodating persons displaced by any operations of such authority under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, the scheme shall contain a declaration to that effect and shall specify the operations by which such persons will be displaced.

(3) The houses shall be completed in a proper and workmanlike manner in accordance with such plans and specifications as may be approved by the Minister.

(4) Materials and appliances of Saorstát manufacture shall so far as possible be used in the provision of the houses.

(5) The houses shall be let at such rents as the Minister may approve, and in the allocation of the houses preference shall be given, wherever practicable, to families living in one-roomed dwellings where either—

(a) one or more members of the family is or are suffering from tuberculosis; or

(b) one or more members of the family, exclusive of the parents, has or have attained the age of sixteen years; or

(c) the dwelling has been condemned as being unfit for human habitation.

(6) The houses shall be open to inspection when required by an authorised officer of the Minister.

(7) In addition to any other accounts which a local authority are...