Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979
Number 27 of 1979
HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1979
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2024
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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Number 27 of 1979
HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1979
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2024
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
Enactments Repealed
Number 27 of 1979
HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1979
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2024
AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE HOUSING ACTS, 1966 TO 1970, AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS IN RELATION TO HOUSING. [1st August, 1979]
BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS:
Annotations
Modifications (not altering text):
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References to “housing authority” construed by Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (18/1992), s. 23(1) as substituted (1.06.2014) by Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), s. 5(3) and sch. 2 part 1, S.I. No. 214 of 2014.
Definition of housing authority and transfer of functions.
23. —[(1) A reference in the Housing Acts 1966 to 2014 to a housing authority is a reference to a local authority and references to the functional area of a housing authority shall be construed accordingly;]
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