MEMORANDUM. The object of this Bill is to amend certain provisions contained in Part II. of the Housing Act, 1925, relating to the making by local authorities and the confirmation by the Minister of Health of improvement and reconstruction schemes, and the determination of the amount of the compensation payable in respect of properties compulsorily acquired by local authorities for the purposes of such schemes under the said Act. The provisions in Part II. of the Housing Act, 1925, are re-enactments of provisions contained in earlier Housing Acts repealed by the 1925 Act. A BILL ΤΟ Amend the provisions in Part II. of the Housing A.D. 1927. Act, 1925, relating to improvement and reconstruction schemes. E it enacted by the King'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, 5 as follows: 1. This Act may be cited as the Housing Act (1925) Short title Amendment Act, 1927, and shall be construed as one and conwith the Housing Act, 1925, herein referred to as the struction. principal Act. The principal Act and this Act may be 10 cited together as the Housing Acts, 1925 and 1927. 15 20 2. The following section shall be substituted for Duty of section thirty-five of the principal Act, namely: 35. (1) Where an official representation is made to a local authority as respects any area in the district of the authority either local authority to make schemes for improve ment of certain (a) that any houses, courts, or alleys areas. (b) that the narrowness, closeness, and A.D. 1927. Amendment and that the most satisfactory method of dealing (2) Any number of such areas may be included in one improvement scheme. (3) The provisions of this Part of this Act 25 relating to improvement schemes shall not apply to rural districts. 3. Section thirty-eight of the principal Act shall be of section amended by the addition thereto at the end thereof of the thirty-eight following provision, namely :— of principal Act. (6) Where an improvement or reconstruction scheme of a local authority comprises land on which is 30 (a) Any building not in itself unfit for human habitation but is so situate that by 35 reason of its proximity to or contact with any other building or buildings it (a) stops or impedes ventilation or otherwise makes or conduces to make such other building or buildings to be in a condition unfit for 40 human habitation or dangerous or injurious to health, or (b) prevents proper measures from being carried into effect for remedying any nuisance injurious to health or other A.D. 1927. (b) Any building which is reasonably fit (c) Any building or structure which is not used or suitable to be used as a dwellinghouse; or (d) Any land not attached to or occupied with any dwelling-house. Any such land and buildings shall be deemed to be included in the improvement or reconstruction scheme only for the purpose of making the scheme efficient and not on account of the sanitary condition of the premises or of those premises being dangerous or prejudicial to health. Nothing contained in this subsection shall prevent the local authority or the Minister from determining that premises other than those mentioned in this subsection shall be included in the scheme only for the purpose of making the same efficient and not on account of the sanitary condition of the premises or of the premises being dangerous or prejudicial to health. 4. The following section shall be substituted for Publication section thirty-nine of the principal Act, namely: of notices and hearing As soon as an improvement or reconstruction of represenscheme has been prepared the local authority shall forthwith tations. |