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HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make further and better provision with respect to the
improvement of the housing of the people, to amend the law relating
to rent restriction, and for purposes connected with those matters.
[6th November 1956]
Part I (ss.113) rep. by 1964 c.26 (NI) s.14 sch. 1971 c.5 (NI)
s.24 sch.3; 1971 c.16 (NI) s.54(3) sch.7; 1973 NI 21 art.72(2)
sch.3; SLR 1976; 1977 NI 8 art.14(2) sch. 1981 NI 3 art.163(2)
sch.13

Ss.2224 rep. by 1967 c.31 (NI) s.130 sch.10 Pt.I; SLR 1976; 1981
NI 3 art.163(2) sch.13

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - SECT 25
Amendments as to Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts.

25.(1) The limitation on the amount of an advance under the Small
Dwellings Acquisition Acts (Northern Ireland), 1899 to 1948, shall be
increased to ninety-five per cent. of the market value of the house
in respect of which the advance is made.

Subs.(2) amends s.1 of 1899 c.44

(3) The amount of an advance under the Small Dwellings Acquisition
Acts (Northern Ireland), 1899 to 1948, which may be made by
instalments as the building of the house progresses shall be
increased to eighty per cent. of the value of the work done up to
that time on the construction of the house.

Subs.(4) amends s.5 of 1923 c.30 (NI)

Amendment of 1773 c.40 (I)

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - SECT 36

36.(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in an Act passed by the
Irish Parliament in the session held in the thirteenth and
fourteenth years of the reign of His Majesty King George the Third,
Chapter forty, intituled "An Act for settling and preserving a
Publick Library in the City of Armagh for ever, and for enabling
the Archbishop of Armagh to appropriate Parts of a Piece of waste
ground contiguous to the said City to certain Uses for the Benefit
of the Inhabitants thereof, and to make long Leases of the
Remainder," it shall be lawful for the governors and guardians in,
under and by that Act constituted and incorporated to dispose of
their estate

(a)in one acre, two roods and two perches statute measure of the
lands held by the said governors and guardians under the said Act,
to the Armagh Urban District Council, for the purposes of the
Housing Acts;

(b)in one acre, two roods and twenty-seven perches statute measure
of the said lands, to the Northern Ireland Housing Trust.

(2) Any such disposal may include such easement, quasi-easement or
right in, to or over any other lands retained by the said
governors and guardians, and may be made subject to such
restrictions, exceptions or reservations, as may be agreed upon.

(3) Any such disposal shall be for a fair and reasonable
consideration or rent, and the proceeds or profits thereof shall be
received by the said governors and guardians and applied by them in
furtherance of the objects and purposes for which such governors and
guardians were by the said Act constituted and incorporated.

(4) The receipt in writing of the said governors and guardians or
any two or more of them for any sum received by them as aforesaid
shall be a valid discharge therefor and shall effectually exonerate
the Armagh Urban District Council or, as the case may be, the
Northern Ireland Housing Trust, from seeing to the application
thereof or being answerable for any loss or misapplication thereof.

Ss.3741 rep. by 1977 NI 8 art.14(2) sch.; 1978 NI 4 art.16(2)
sch.2 Pt.I; 1981 NI 3 art.163(2) sch.13

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - SECT 42
Amendment of s.7 of Housing (No. 2) Act, 1946, in respect of
certain houses.

42. Where a grant is paid under Part III of the Housing (No. 2)
Act (Northern Ireland), 1946, in respect of a house

(a)completed after the thirty-first day of August, nineteen hundred
and fifty-five; and

(b)not exceeding in superficial area nine hundred square feet;

Ss.4347 rep. by 1961 c.12 (NI) s.48 sch.3; SLR 1976; 1976 NI 25
art.80(4) sch.6 Pt.II; 1977 NI 8 art.14(2) sch.; 1981 NI 3
art.163(2) sch.13

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - SECT 48
Recovery of part of certain commuted sums.

48.(1) Where

(a)in accordance with a housing subsidy order made under section one
of the Housing (No. 2) Act (Northern Ireland), 1946, an annual sum
was payable in respect of a house ... to a housing association
within the meaning of sub-section (2) of section twelve of the
Housing and Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act (Northern
Ireland), 1946; and

(b)that annual sum has been commuted; and

(c)the house in respect of which the annual sum was payable before
commutation has been destroyed or otherwise ceases to be used as
housing accommodation;

(i)that annual sum had not been commuted; and

(ii)the house had not ceased to be used as housing accommodation.

(2) Where any annual sum is payable to the Ministry in accordance
with sub-section (1), ..., the housing association, may by agreement
with the Ministry pay to the Ministry an amount in commutation of
that annual sum, or a part thereof, and thereupon such annual sum
or part thereof shall be deemed to be commuted accordingly.

Part V(ss.4961) rep. by 1978 NI 20 art.77(3) sch.10

S.62 rep. by 1981 NI 3 art.163(2) sch.13

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - SECT 63
Interpretation.

63. In this Act the following expressions have the meanings hereby
assigned to them, that is to say

Definition rep. by 1981 NI 3 art.163(2) sch.13

"flat" means a separate and self-contained set of premises
constructed for use for the purposes of a dwelling and forming part
of a building from some other part of which it is divided
horizontally;

"house" ... includes

(i)any part of a building, being a part which is occupied or
intended to be occupied as a separate dwelling;

(ii)a flat;

<(iii)any yard, garden, out-house and appurtenances belonging to a house or usually enjoyed therewith; and

<(iv)the site of a house;

Definitions rep. by 1978 NI 20 art.77(3) sch.10; 1981 NI 3
art.163(2) sch.13

Citation.

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) AND RENT RESTRICTION LAW (AMENDMENT)
ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1956 - SECT 66

66.(1) This Act may be cited as the Housing (Miscellaneous
Provisions) and Rent Restriction Law (Amendment) Act (Northern
Ireland), 1956.

Subs.(2)(3) rep. by 1978 NI 20 art.77(3) sch.10; 1981 NI 3
art.163(2) sch.13


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