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Housing (Underground Rooms) Act 1959

As Enacted Cited authorities 1 Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1959 c. 34
Year1959


Housing (Underground Rooms) Act, 1959

(7 & 8 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 34

An Act to make provision as to the circumstances in which underground rooms are to be deemed for the purposes of section eighteen of the Housing Act, 1957, to be unfit for human habitation.

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:—

S-1 Closing orders as to underground rooms.

1 Closing orders as to underground rooms.

(1) Section four of the Housing Act, 1957 (which makes general provision as to the defects to be treated for the purposes of that Act as rendering a house unfit for human habitation), shall not affect the operation of paragraph (b and subsection (2) of section eighteen of that Act (which confer special powers to close underground rooms deemed for the purposes of that section to be unfit for human habitation).

(2) Accordingly in subsection (2) of section eighteen of that Act the words ‘Subject to the provisions of section four of this Act as to the circumstances under which a house is to be deemed unfit for human habitation’ are hereby repealed.

S-2 Short title, citation, extent and commencement.

2 Short title, citation, extent and commencement.

(1) This Act may be cited as the Housing (Underground Rooms) Act, 1959 , and the Housing Act, 1957, and this Act may be cited together as the Housing Acts, 1957 and 1959.

(2) Nothing in this Act extends to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

(3) This Act shall come into force on the expiration of one month beginning with the day on which it is passed.

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