Housing (Slum Clearance Compensation) Act 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1965 c. 81 |
| Year | 1965 |
Housing (Slum ClearanceCompensation) Act 1965
1965 CHAPTER 81
An Act to amend the provisions of Part II of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1957 relating to private dwellings.
[22nd December 1965]
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 Payments to owner-occupiers of unfit houses.
(1) Paragraph 4(1) in Part II of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1957 (payments to owner-occupiers of unfit houses purchased or vacated in pursuance of certain compulsory purchase orders, demolition or closing orders or clearance orders) shall have effect in relation—
(a ) to any such order made before 13th December 1965, and
(b ) where the date on which the owner-occupier acquired his interest fell in the period of five years beginning with 13th December 1950, to any such order made within fifteen years beginning with the said date on which the owner-occupier acquired his interest,
and in the said paragraph 4(1) the words ‘at any time before 13th December 1965’ (which restrict the paragraph to cases where the compulsory purchase or vacation of the house took place before that date) shall be repealed.
(2) In this section the references to the date on which the owner-occupier acquired his interest are references to the date of the acquisition of the interest in the house referred to in the said paragraph 4(2).
2 Money borrowed by owner-occupier to purchase unfit house or on security of an unfit house.
(1) The jurisdiction exercisable by the county court under paragraph 5 in Part II of Schedule 2 to the Housing Act 1957 before the words ‘either party to the mortgage, charge or agreement may apply to the county court’ there shall be inserted the words ‘or where section 2 of the Housing (Slum Clearance Compensation) Act 1965 applies’.
(2) This section shall apply where a house is purchased at site value in pursuance of a compulsory purchase order made by virtue of Part II or Part III of the Housing Act 1957, or has been vacated in pursuance of a demolition order, closing order or clearance order, and—
(a ) on the date of the making of the compulsory purchase or other order the whole or any part...
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