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To amend the provisions in Part II. of the Housing Act, 1925, relating to improvement and reconstruction schemes.

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Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed, 21 November 1927.

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To be purchased directly from

H.M. STATIONERY OFFICE at the following addresses:
Adastral House, Kingsway, London, W.C.2;

120, George Street, Edinburgh; York Street, Manchester; 1, St. Andrew's Crescent, Cardiff; 15, Donegall Square West, Belfast; or through any Bookseller.

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Amendment.

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certain provisions in Part II of the A.D. 1927. Housing 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 with the Housing Act, 1925, herein referred to as the principal Act. The principal Act and this Act may be cited 10 together as the Housing Acts, 1925 and 1927.

2. Notwithstanding the provisions of section forty- Full comsix of the principal Act, the full value of property taken pensation is, subject to the provisions of this Act, to be assessed to be paid and paid in accordance with the Acquisition of Land for property 15 (Assessment of Compensation) Act, 1919, as modified by certain Part I. of the First Schedule to the principal Act: exceptions. Provided that

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taken, with

(1) The value of any property taken shall be Date when
estimated as at the time of the advertisement value to be

of the scheme comprising such property under estimated.
section thirty-nine of the principal Act or
the date of the service of the notice prescribed
by that section upon the owner of such
property, whichever date shall be the earlier :

A.D. 1927.

Compensation to be reduced when

property is insanitary

&c. owing to default of claimant.

Appeals.

Sanitary property not to be deemed insanitary

by reason of its environ

ment.

Repeal of proviso in section

46 (1) of the Housing Act 1925.

Compensation for

disturbance.

Licensed premises :

Removals to

be allowed even after

Amendment.

(2) If the arbitrator, acting under the Acquisition
of Land (Assessment of Compensation) Act,
1919, is satisfied that the property is in an
insanitary condition or dangerous or preju-
dicial to health by reason of any default on 5
the part of the claimant, the amount of
compensation to be paid to him shall be
reduced by such sum as the arbitrator may
think fit having regard thereto :

(3) An appeal shall lie from any decision of such 10
arbitrator under this section to the High

Court of Justice, and thence to the Court of
Appeal and the House of Lords.

3. For removing doubts it is hereby declared that no
property shall be deemed to be in an insanitary condition 15
or dangerous or prejudicial to health merely on account
of its environment or for any other reason whatsoever,
if in fact it is not in itself in an insanitary condition or is
not in itself dangerous or prejudicial to health.

4. The proviso to subsection (1) of section forty-six 20 of the principal Act (which provides that in certain events the cost of re-housing persons of the working classes or of laying out open spaces shall reduce the amount of compensation payable for property acquired) is hereby repealed.

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5. Any person having an interest in any trade, business, profession, or vocation which is being carried on or exercised in or on any premises taken shall be entitled to receive in addition to all other compensation payable to him compensation for disturbance of such 30 trade, business, profession, or vocation not exceeding one year's profits thereof.

6.—(1) In the case of premises licensed for the sale of intoxicating liquors which are included in any scheme under the principal Act, any person interested in the 35 licence attached to such premises shall have the right to proceeding apply for and obtain the grant of a special removal or for acquian ordinary removal of the licence attaching thereto, notwithstanding the publication of a scheme under section commenced. thirty-nine of the principal Act, or that any other pro- 40 ceedings for acquisition of the property under the principal Act may have commenced, and such application

sition

Amendment.

may be made and granted at any time before the A.D. 1927.
compensation payable for the said premises has been
actually paid to such person.

(2) If such application be granted the owner shall 5 be entitled to receive as compensation the value of the premises as unlicensed premises only.

(3) In construing this Act the phrases "special removal" and "ordinary removal" shall have the same meaning as in the Licensing (Consolidation) Act, 1910.

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