Housing Act 1971
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1971 c. 76 |
Housing Act 1971
1971 CHAPTER 76
An Act to increase the amount of financial assistance available under Parts I and II of the Housing Act 1969, and under certain provisions of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968 and of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1969, as respects expenditure incurred in local government areas wholly or partly within development areas, or intermediate areas under section 1 of the Local Employment Act 1970.
[5th August 1971]
Be it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Housing improvement in development areas and intermediate areas.
(1) This Act shall apply to works eligible for financial assistance under the provisions of the Housing Act 1969 and of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968 and the Housing (Scotland) Act 1969 mentioned in this Act, if they are carried out in a local government area which on 23rd June 1971 (in this Act called ‘the relevant date’) is wholly or partly within a development area or an intermediate area, and—
(a ) the works have not been begun before the relevant date, and
(b ) the works are completed before the expiration of a period of two years beginning with the relevant date.
(2) If, in a case where, after the relevant date, but within the period of two years beginning with that date, a local government area comes wholly or partly within a development area or an intermediate area, the Secretary of State by order in a statutory instrument so directs, this Act shall apply to works eligible for financial assistance under the provisions of the Housing Act 1969 and of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968 and the Housing (Scotland) Act 1969 mentioned in this Act, if they are carried out in that local government area and—
(a ) the application for financial assistance is duly made on or after the date when the order comes into force, and
(b ) the works are completed before the expiration of the said period of two years.
(3) Subsections (1) and (2) above apply whether or not the local government area is wholly or partly within a development area or an intermediate area when the works are completed.
(4) In this Act—
‘development area’ means an area for the time being specified as a development area under section 15(2) of the Industrial Development Act 1966 , and includes any such locality outside that area as is specified in section 15(6) of that Act,
‘intermediate area’ means a locality for the time being specified under section 1 of the Local Employment Act 1970 as an intermediate area or treated, by virtue of subsection (5) of that section, as included in an intermediate area,
‘local government area’ means a borough, urban district or rural district, and in Scotland means the district of a local authority.
2 Increase in financial assistance.
(1) Where this Act applies, Part I of the Housing Act 1969 shall have effect as if, in the enactments specified in column 1 of the following Table, for the words or figures in column 2 of that Table there were substituted the words or figures in column 3 of that Table.
Table
| Enactment | Existing words or figures |
Words or figures to be substituted |
| 1 | 2 | 3 |
Section 5(1)(a ) (Limit on improvement grant). |
One half. | ‘75 per cent.’ |
Section 6(2) (Limit on amount of improvement grant payable in advance). |
One half. | ‘75 per cent.’ |
Section 11(1) (Standard grant to be one half of cost of works). |
One half. | ‘75 per cent.’ |
Section 15(1) (Special grant to be one half of cost of works). |
One half. | ‘75 per cent.’ |
Section 16(2) (Contribution by Secretary of State to local authority grants). |
Three quarters. | ‘90 per cent.’ (exceptasprovided at the end of this Table). |
Sections 18(2) and 19(3) (Improvement contributions and standard contributions by Secretary of State: allowable cost to be one half of cost). |
One half. | ‘100 per cent.’ |
Section 21(4) (Contributions by Secretary of State to housing associations). |
One half. | ‘100 per cent.’ |
The substitution by this Table in section 16(2) of the Housing Act 1969 for three quarters of 90 per cent. shall not apply where the local authority grant is an improvement grant which is less than three quarters of the approved expense.
(2) Where this Act applies, so much of section 5(1) of the Housing Act 1969 as requires the local authority to fix the amount of an improvement grant at the time when they approve the application for the grant shall not apply, and the amount fixed at that time may be varied by the local authority, subject to the provisions of the said Act, at...
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