Housing (Amendment) Act 1973
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1973 c. 5 |
| Year | 1973 |
Housing (Amendment)Act 1973
1973 CHAPTER 5
An Act to extend the operation of the Housing Act 1971 and to make further provision as to the imposition of conditions on the sale of houses by local authorities under the Housing Act 1957.
[6th March 1973]
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 Extension of powers to give financial assistance for housing in certain areas.
(1) The Housing Act 1971 (under section 1 of which the increased financial assistance for housing improvement in development areas and intermediate areas for which sections 2 and 3 provide is available only in respect of works completed before the expiration of a period of two years beginning with 23rd June 1971) shall have effect in relation to any local government area as defined in subsection (4) of the said section 1 for a further period of one year; and the word ‘three’ shall accordingly be substituted for the word ‘two’ in paragraph (b and in both places where it occurs in subsection (2) of that section.
(2) For the paragraph which follows the Table in section 2(1) of the said Act of 1971 (increased financial assistance in England and Wales) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—
‘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—
(a ) if the application for it was approved before 4th August 1972, is less than three quarters of the approved expense;
(b ) if the application was approved on or after that date, is less than whichever of the following amounts is the smaller, namely—
(i) three quarters of the approved expense;
(ii) the maximum permissible amount of grant.
For the purposes of the application to any case of the foregoing paragraph the maximum permissible amount of grant is the maximum amount payable in that case by virtue of subsections (2) and (3) of section 5 of the Housing Act 1969.’
(3) For the paragraph which follows the Table in section 3(1) of the said Act of 1971 (increased financial assistance in Scotland) there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—
‘The substitutions by this Table in section 35 of the Housing (Financial...
To continue reading
Request your trial