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27 1958

HOUSING (AMENDMENT) ACT, 1958

PART V

Labourers Cottages

Continuance of Labourers' Acts.

26. —Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Labourers Acts, the Labourers Acts shall continue in force until such time as they are repealed or terminated.

Provision of flats under the Labourers' Acts.

27. —(1) For the purpose of removing doubt it is hereby declared that the power of a housing authority to provide cottages or other housing accommodation under the Labourers Acts includes and shall be deemed always to have included the power to provide cottages or houses containing two or more separate tenements.

(2) The provisions of the Labourers Act, 1936 , as amended, in relation to the purchase of cottages provided under the Labourers Acts by the tenants thereof (including the provisions relating to purchase schemes within the meaning of that Act) shall not apply in relation to a separate tenement in a cottage or house containing two or more separate tenements and provided under the Labourers Acts.

Letting of cottages under section 35 of the Act of 1948.

28. —The letting by the council of a county under section 35 of the Act of 1948, as amended by section 34 of the Act of 1952, of cottages to families living in over-crowded conditions shall be deemed, for the purposes of section 14 of this Act, to be operations of a local authority under the Housing of the Working Classes Acts.

Annulment of compulsory purchase orders under the Act of 1932.

29. —Where, in respect of a compulsory purchase order to which the Third Schedule to the Act of 1932, as amended by section 42 of the Act of 1948, applies, an objection (whether in respect of the whole or part of the land proposed to be acquired) is duly made and is not withdrawn, an annulment of the order pursuant to Article 4 of that Schedule, either in whole or, where the objection is in respect of part only of the land proposed to be acquired, in so far only as it relates to that part, may, if the Minister thinks fit so to annul the order, be effected without causing to be held a public local inquiry into the objection and the said Article 4 shall be construed and have effect accordingly.