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.

All Acts up to and including the Electoral (Amendment) Act 2023 (40/2023), enacted 19 December 2023, and all statutory instruments up to and including the Sick Leave Act 2022 (Increase of Statutory Sick Leave Days) Order 2024 (S.I. No. 10 of 2024), made 1 January 2024, were considered in the preparation of this Revised Act.

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Number 27 of 1979


HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1979

REVISED

Updated to 1 January 2024


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS

Section

1.

Interpretation.

2.

Devolution of administration of housing grants.

3.

Grants by Minister for expenses of certain bodies. (Repealed)

4.

Grants by Minister for provision of new houses.

5.

Grants by Minister for improvement of houses.

6.

Grants and other assistance by housing authorities for provision of new houses and improvement of houses.

7.

Grants by Minister for housing of elderly persons and others.

8.

Loans by housing authorities for improvement of houses. (Repealed)

9.

Subsidies by Minister to housing authorities for provision of sites for private housing. (Repealed)

10.

Subsidies by Minister for houses provided by housing authorities for letting. (Repealed)

11.

Subsidies by Minister and housing authorities for purchase or construction of houses.

12.

Subsidies by Minister for certain loans guaranteed by housing authorities. (Repealed)

13.

Duty of housing authorities in certain circumstances to put houses into good structural condition. (Repealed)

14.

Amendment of section 5 of Principal Act.

15.

Amendment of section 33 of Principal Act. (Repealed)

16.

Amendment of section 60 of Principal Act. (Repealed)

17.

Amendment of section 90 of Principal Act. (Repealed)

18.

Certificates of reasonable value.

19.

Statutory declarations. (Repealed)

20.

Amendment of Building Societies Act, 1976. (Repealed)

21.

Transfer of certain land by Minister for Health to Dublin Corporation and Commissioners of Public Works.

22.

Validation.

23.

Repeals.

24.

Short title, collective citation, construction and commencement.

SCHEDULE

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):

C1

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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