Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1946
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1946 c. 54 |
| Year | 1946 |
Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1946,
(9 & 10 Geo. 6.) CHAPTER 54.
An Act to make fresh provision for the making of contributions out of the Exchequer and by local authorities in respect of housing accommodation provided for the working classes in Scotland and for the making of payments and advances to the housing association approved for the purposes of section two of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1938; to amend Part II of the Housing (Agricultural Population) (Scotland) Act, 1938; to amend the provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Acts, 1925 to 1944, relating to the making of contributions in respect of housing accommodation, to housing accounts, and to the disposal of land; to enable county councils to provide housing accommodation outside their districts; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
[6th June 1946]
B E it enacted by the King'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 Exchequer contributions in respect of housing accommodation provided by local authorities.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Secretary of State shall undertake to make, and make, in respect of each new house completed after the seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-four, by way of housing accommodation for the working classes provided by a local authority in accordance with proposals approved by the Secretary of State, payment to that local authority of an annual contribution for a period of sixty years.
(2) An annual contribution under this section shall be—
(a ) in respect of a house of three apartments the sum of twenty-one pounds ten shillings;
(b ) in respect of a house of four apartments the sum of twenty-three pounds; and
(c ) in respect of a house of five apartments the sum of twenty-five pounds ten shillings:
Provided that—
(a ) where the Secretary of State is satisfied that by reason of—
(i) the costliness of providing housing accommodation in a re-development area; or
(ii) the purchase under Part I of the Act of 1930, or the payment of compensation under that Act in respect of the demolition, of dwelling-houses or other premises which are neither unfit for human habitation nor injurious or dangerous to health and which are included in, or adjoin, or are surrounded by, a clearance area; or
(iii) the costliness of the provision by a local authority, being the town council of a large burgh, of housing accommodation in tenements on a central site;
the total annual expenditure likely to be incurred by the local authority in providing housing accommodation to which this section applies is substantially greater than the aggregate of the appropriate annual contributions payable by the Secretary of State under the foregoing provisions and the provisions of subsection (4) of this section and the corresponding annual contributions payable by the local authority under section two of this Act, the Secretary of State may, with the sanction of the Treasury, undertake to make, and make, in addition to the appropriate contribution aforesaid payment to the local authority for a period of sixty years of an annual contribution of such amount not exceeding twenty pounds in respect of each house provided by way of such housing accommodation in the re-development area, in the clearance area or on land adjoining or surrounded by the clearance area and acquired in connection therewith, or in tenements on the central site as the case may be, as seems to the Secretary of State just and reasonable;
(b ) where housing accommodation is provided by a local authority, being the town council of a large burgh, in a tenement the whole or any part of which is of at least four storeys (inclusive of any storey constructed for use for purposes other than those of a dwelling), and expenditure has been incurred in installing lifts in the tenement, the Secretary of State may, in respect of each of such number of the houses in the tenement as he may think fit, undertake to make, and make, for a period of sixty years an annual contribution of seven pounds in addition to any annual contribution which he may undertake to make, and make, under the foregoing provisions of this section;
(c ) where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the total annual expenditure likely to be incurred by a local authority not being the town council of a large burgh in providing housing accommodation to which this section applies is substantially greater than the aggregate aforesaid in consequence of the remoteness of the sites of any houses in which such accommodation is provided from centres of supply of building labour and material, and the impracticability of obtaining for such houses higher rents than are ordinarily payable by persons employed in agriculture or fishing or by persons of the like economic condition, the Secretary of State may, with the sanction of the Treasury, undertake to make, and make, in addition to the appropriate contribution aforesaid payment to the local authority for a period of sixty years of an annual contribution of such amount in respect of such of the houses so provided as seems to the Secretary of State just and reasonable.
(3) For the purposes of this section and of section two of this Act, a house of less than three apartments shall be deemed to be a house of three apartments, and a house of more than five apartments shall be deemed to be a house of five apartments.
(4) Where a local authority, in accordance with proposals approved by the Secretary of State, provide housing accommodation for single persons in a hostel completed after the seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-four, then, subject to the authority complying with such conditions, if any, as the Secretary of State may impose, each part of the hostel designed for separate occupation by such persons shall be deemed to be a new house in respect of which the Secretary of State must undertake to make, and make, an annual contribution under this section, so however that the amount of the annual contribution shall be eleven pounds.
(5) No contribution shall be payable under this section in respect of any house in respect of which a contribution is payable under section three of this Act.
(6) In subsection (2) and subsection (3) of section forty-seven of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945 (which provides for the payment in certain cases of subsidy under the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1938 , in respect of housing accommodation provided on land acquired under the said Act of 1945) any reference to a provision of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1938, shall include a reference to the corresponding provisions of this Act.
2 Local authorities' contributions.
(1) A local authority to whom the Secretary of State has, under section one of this Act, undertaken to make a contribution in respect of any house or any accommodation which is deemed for the purposes of that section to be a new house shall make in respect thereof an annual contribution out of the appropriate rate for a period of sixty years from the date of the completion of the house or accommodation.
(2) An annual contribution under this section shall be—
(a ) in respect of a house of three apartments the sum of six pounds ten shillings;
(b ) in respect of a house of four apartments the sum of seven pounds; and
(c ) in respect of a house of five apartments the sum of seven pounds ten shillings;
together with in every case an additional sum equal to one half of any additional contributions which the Secretary of State has undertaken to make under proviso (a ) and proviso (b ) to subsection (2) of section one of this Act; and
(d ) in respect of accommodation deemed to be a new house in respect of which the Secretary of State has undertaken to make a contribution under subsection (4) of the said section one, the sum of five pounds.
3 Exchequer contributions in respect of housing accommodation for agricultural population.
(1) Subject to the provisions of this Act, the Secretary of State shall undertake to make, and make, in respect of each new house completed after the seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-four, by way of housing accommodation for for the agricultural population provided by a local authority under Part III of the Act of 1925 in accordance with proposals approved by the Secretary of State, payment to that local authority of an annual contribution for a period of sixty years.
(2) An annual contribution under this section shall be of such amount as the Secretary of State may, with the sanction of the Treasury, determine, so however that the annual contribution shall not be less than twenty-one pounds ten shillings or exceed thirty-five pounds, and in determining the amount of the annual contribution payable by him under this section the Secretary of State shall take into consideration the cost of providing the house, the rent which it will be practicable to obtain therefor, the expenditure already incurred or to be incurred by the local authority under the enactments relating to housing, and the general financial resources of the local authority:
Provided that where the Secretary of State is satisfied that the annual expenditure likely to be incurred by the local authority in respect of any house is, in consequence of the remoteness of the site thereof from centres of supply of building...
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