Housing Act 1952
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | 1952 c. 53 |
| Year | 1952 |
Housing Act , 1952
(15 & 16 Geo. 6 & 1 Eliz. 2) CHAPTER 53
An Act to increase the amounts of the annual exchequer, rate fund and county council contributions under the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1946; to enable contributions under section three of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1938, to be made in respect of houses occupied under contracts of service by members of the agricultural population, and to amend section twenty-three of the Housing Act, 1949, in relation to dwellings so occupied; to amend section seventy-nine of the Housing Act, 1936, in relation to sales and leases of houses by local authorities and to extend the powers of local authorities to acquire land under Part V of that Act; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
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 Increases in exchequer, etc. contributions and sums credited to housing repairs accounts.
(1) In relation to houses completed after the twenty-eighth day of February, nineteen hundred and fifty-two, the provisions of the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1946, shall have effect subject to the following amendments, that is to say—
(a ) in section two (which prescribes the general standard amount of annual exchequer contributions), for the words ‘sixteen pounds ten shillings’ there shall be substituted the words ‘twenty-six pounds fourteen shillings’;
(b ) in subsection (1) of section three (which prescribes the amount of the said contributions in respect of certain houses provided for the agricultural population, and defines that amount as the special standard amount), for the words ‘For a house’ there shall be substituted the words ‘If the Minister thinks fit so to determine in the case of any house’, and for the words ‘twenty-five pounds ten shillings’ there shall be substituted the words ‘thirty-five pounds fourteen shillings’;
(c ) in subsection (3) of section five (which prescribes the normal amount of annual rate fund contributions), for the words ‘five pounds ten shillings’ there shall be substituted the words ‘eight pounds eighteen shillings’;
(d ) in subsection (4) of section five (which prescribes the normal amount of annual rate fund contributions for a house in respect of which the annual exchequer contribution is the special standard amount) and in section eight (which prescribes the amount of annual county council contributions in respect of such houses), for the words ‘one pound ten shillings’ there shall be substituted the words ‘two pounds ten shillings’;
(e ) in the First Schedule, for the Table set out in Part II and the Table set out in Part III (which specify the amounts of contributions for flats on expensive sites) there shall be substituted respectively the Table set out in Part I and the Table set out in Part II of the Schedule to this Act.
(2) In relation to houses completed as aforesaid, section thirty-eight of the Housing Act, 1949 (which increases the amounts of contributions for houses on expensive sites) shall have effect as if in paragraph (a ) of subsection (1) for the words ‘one pound and four shillings’ there were substituted the words ‘two pounds five shillings’.
(3) Section one hundred and thirty-one of the Housing Act, 1936 (which, as amended by section twenty-one of the Act of 1946, requires certain local authorities to carry sums to the credit of the Housing Repairs Account in each financial year) shall have effect, in relation to the financial year beginning on the first day of April, nineteen hundred and fifty-two and each subsequent financial year, as if for the words ‘four pounds’ there were substituted the words ‘eight pounds’.
2 Contributions and grants for houses occupied under contracts of service.
(1) Subsection (3) of section thirteen of the Act of 1946 (which prohibits the making of a contribution under section three of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1938, for any year during which a house is occupied otherwise than by its owner or a tenant) shall cease to have effect.
(2) Paragraph (b ) of subsection (1) of section twenty-three of the Housing Act, 1949 (which requires that a dwelling in respect of which an improvement grant has been made under section twenty of that Act must be let or kept available for letting except when occupied as mentioned therein) shall not apply to a dwelling which is for the time being occupied by a member of the agricultural population in pursuance of a contract of service.
(3) No contribution shall be payable under section three of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1938, in respect of a house completed after the seventeenth day of April, nineteen hundred and forty-six, for any year during which the house is at any time occupied in pursuance of a contract of service by a member of the agricultural population unless the condition set out in subsection (4) of this section, so far as applicable to the house at any time during that year, is complied with; and in relation to any dwelling in respect of which an improvement grant has been made, whether before or after the passing of this Act, under section twenty of the Housing Act, 1949, being a dwelling which is for the time being occupied as aforesaid, section twenty-three of the said Act of 1949 shall have effect as if that condition were included among the conditions specified in subsection (1) of that section.
(4) The condition referred to in subsection (3) of this section is that if the contract is determined—
(a ) by less than four weeks' notice given by the employer;
(b ) by dismissal of the employee without notice; or
(c ) by the death of either party,
the employer or his personal representative will permit the employee (or, in the case of his death, any person residing with him at his death) to continue to occupy the house or dwelling free of charge from the determination of the contract until the expiration of a period of four weeks beginning with the date on which the notice is...
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