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27 1958

HOUSING (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1958

PART I

Preliminary And General

Short title, construction and collective citation.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1958.

(2) This Act in so far as it amends the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1956, the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1956, the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899 to 1957, and the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 to 1956, shall be read and construed as one therewith respectively and may be cited together therewith as the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1958, the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1958, the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899 to 1958, and the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 to 1958.

Definitions.

2. —In this Act—

the Act of 1931” means the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1931 ;

the Act of 1932” means the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932 ;

the Act of 1948” means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1948 ;

the Act of 1950” means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950 ;

the Act of 1952” means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1952 ;

the Act of 1954” means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1954 ;

the Act of 1956” means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1956 ;

housing authority” means in the case of—

(a) a county health district, the council of the county in which such county health district is situate,

(b) a county or other borough, the corporation of such county or other borough, and

(c) an urban district council, the council of such urban district;

the Housing of the Working Classes Acts” means the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1956, as amended by this Act;

the Labourers Acts” means the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1956, as amended by this Act;

the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government.

Regulations.

3. —(1) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling the regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which that House has sat after the regulation is laid before it, the regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to anything previously done thereunder.

(2) No regulation which includes provision in respect of a payment to be made by the Minister shall be made by the Minister under this Act without the consent to that provision of the Minister for Finance.

Expenses.

4. —The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

Repeals.

5. —(1) Each enactment specified in the Schedule to this Act is hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule

(2) Section 17 of the Labourers (Ireland) Act, 1906, is hereby repealed as on and from the 1st day of December, 1958.

(3) Subsection (1) of this section shall come into operation on the 1st day of April, 1959.