PART I.

Preliminary and General.

1. —(1) This Act may be cited as the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1950.

(2) This Act in so far as it amends the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1948, the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1948, the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899 to 1948, and the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 to 1949, shall be read and construed as one therewith respectively and may be cited together therewith as the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1950, the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1950, the Small Dwellings Acquisition Acts, 1899 to 1950, and the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 to 1950.

2. —In this Act—

the expression “the Act of 1899” means the Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899;

the expression “the Act of 1932” means the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932 (No. 19 of 1932);

the expression “the Act of 1937” means the Housing and Labourers Act, 1937 (No. 42 of 1937);

the expression “the Act of 1948” means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1948 (No. 1 of 1948);

the expression “housing authority” means in the case of—

(a) a county health district, the council of the county in which such county health district is situate;

(b) a county or other borough, the corporation of such county or other borough, and

(c) an urban district, the council of such urban district;

the expression “the Housing of the Working Classes Acts” means the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, 1890 to 1948, as amended by this Act;

the expression “the Labourers Acts” means the Labourers Acts, 1883 to 1948, as amended by this Act;

the expression “the Minister” means the Minister for Local Government.

3. —(1) Every regulation made by the Minister under this Act shall be laid before each House of the Oireachtas as soon as may be after it is made and, if a resolution annulling such regulation is passed by either such House within the next subsequent twenty-one days on which such House has sat after such regulation is laid before it, such regulation shall be annulled accordingly but without prejudice to anything previously done under such regulation.

(2) No regulation which includes provision in respect of a payment to be made by the Minister shall be made by the Minister under this Act without the consent to such provision of the Minister for Finance.

4. —The expenses incurred by the Minister in the administration of this Act shall, to such extent as may be sanctioned by the Minister for Finance, be paid out of moneys provided by the Oireachtas.

5. —Each enactment mentioned in the First Schedule to this Act is hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column with effect on the date specified in the fourth column of the Schedule.