Housing Act 1961
Housing Act 1961 (1961 c. 65)
- Housing Act 1961 (1961 c. 65)
- PART I Financial Assistance for Housing Accommodation Provided by Local Authorities and Other Public Bodies
- Exchequer subsidies for new housing accommodation
- 1 Dwellings qualifying for subsidies
- 2 Power to abolish or reduce subsidies
- 3 Dwellings provided by local authorities for town development and other special purposes, and dwellings provided by other bodies
- 4 Other dwellings provided by local authorities
- 5 Subsidies for flats, expensive sites and agricultural dwellings
- 6 Increases in respect of rights of support and houses constructed to preserve the character of surroundings
- Advances to housing associations providing housing accommodation for letting
- 7 Advances to housing associations providing housing accommodation for letting
- Miscellaneous
- 8 Reduction or withholding of subsidies in respect of housing provided in pursuance of special arrangements with Minister
- 9 Grants for hostels
- 10 Payments for town development
- 11 Interpretation of Part I and consequential and other amendments
- PART II Amendments of Housing Act, 1957
- Houses in multiple occupation
- 12 Power to apply management code to houses in multiple occupation
- 13 Regulations prescribing management code
- 14 Power to require doing of work to make good neglect of proper standards of management
- 15 Power to require execution of works of other descriptions
- 16 Provision of means of escape from fire
- 17 Right of appeal against notice requiring execution of works
- 18 Carrying out of works by local authority
- 19 Directions to prevent or reduce overcrowding in houses in multiple occupation
- 20 Offences under s.90 of principal Act
- 21 Application of ss.12 to 15 to certain buildings comprising separate dwellings
- 22 Registers of houses in multiple occupation
- 23 Supplemental provisions
- Reconditioning of condemned houses
- 24 Exclusion of houses from clearance order
- 25 Power to permit reconstruction of a house condemned under a demolition order
- Miscellaneous
- 26 Power to substitute closing order for demolition order to enable a house to be used otherwise than for human habitation
- 27 Minor amendments of principal Act
- 28 Interpretation and construction of Part II
- PART III Miscellaneous and General
- Private improvements in housing
- 29 Permitted rent increase for improvements
- 30 Standard grant for provision of hot water supply and water closets
- 31 Provisions relating to improvement grants and standard grants
- Repairing obligations
- 32 Repairing obligations in short leases of dwelling-houses
- 33 Application of s.32 and restriction on contracting out
- Town development
- 34 Town development
- General
- 35 Financial provisions
- 36 Short title, interpretation, commencement, extent and repeals
- SCHEDULES
- FIRST SCHEDULE Exchequer Subsidies for Local Authorities in Special Cases
- PART I Supplemental Payments
- Qualification for supplemental payment
- Dwellings completed before April, 1964
- Dwellings completed in and after April, 1964
- Definition of Product of a Rate
- PART II Ascertainment of Relevant Year and Gross Value
- The relevant year
- Ascertainment of gross value
- SECOND SCHEDULE Amendments of Enactments relating to Financial Assistance for Housing Accommodation
- PART I Application of Enactments to Exchequer Subsidies under this Act
- The Town Development Act, 1952 (15 & 16 Geo. 6. and 1 Eliz. 2. c. 54.)
- The Housing Act, 1957 (5 & 6 Eliz. 2. c. 56.)
- The Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 42)
- The Town and Country Planning Act, 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2 c. 53)
- PART II Other Amendments
- The Housing, &c. Act, 1923 (13 & 14 Geo. 5. c. 24)
- The Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1958 (6 & 7 Eliz. 2. c. 42)
- The New Towns Act, 1959 (7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 62)
- THIRD SCHEDULE Orders excluding Buildings from a Clearance Area
- PART I Procedure for making Orders
- PART II Consequence of making Order
- Suspension of duty to vacate and demolish budding
- Re-imposition of duties where order is not confirmed
- Payments for well maintained houses and houses held by owner-occupiers
- Condemned houses let to local authorities
- Condemned houses temporarily occupied under licence
- FOURTH SCHEDULE Repeals
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