Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1933
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1933 c. 16 |
| Year | 1933 |
Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1933
(23 & 24 Geo. 5.) CHAPTER 16.
An Act to provide for the reduction of the subsidies payable to local authorities in Scotland under section two of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1924, in certain cases, and in all other respects to bring to an end the power of the Department of Health for Scotland to grant subsidies under sections one and three of the Housing, &c. Act, 1923, and the said Act of 1924; to enable the said Department to undertake to make contributions in certain cases towards losses sustained by local authorities under guarantees given by them for facilitating the provision of houses to be let to the working classes; and for purposes connected with or incidental to the foresaid matters.
[18th May 1933]
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 Reduction of subsidies under 14 & 15 Geo. 5. c. 35 in respect of houses subject to special conditions provided by local authorities themselves.
(1) The contribution which under section two of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1924, as that Act (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Act of 1924’) applies to Scotland, the Department of Health for Scotland (hereinafter referred to as ‘the Department’) may make or undertake to make to a local authority in respect of a house provided by the authority themselves if the house is subject to special conditions as provided in the Act of 1924, shall, as respects houses provided in pursuance of proposals submitted to the Department after the fifteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-two, and completed before the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and thirty-five, instead of being a contribution of nine pounds, or, if the house is situated in a rural area, twelve pounds ten shillings, payable annually for a period of forty years, be in every case a contribution of three pounds payable annually for the like period.
(2) Subsection (1) of section three of the Act of 1924 (which sets forth the conditions for compliance with which a local authority must give an undertaking if a house provided by themselves is to be deemed to be subject to special conditions)...
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