Number 21 of 1997

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1997

REVISED

Updated to 3 September 2021

Introduction

This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.

Related legislation

Housing Acts 1966 to 2021: this Act is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Affordable Housing Act 2021 (25/2021), s. 1(2)). The Acts in this group are:

• Housing Act 1966 (21/1966)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1979 (27/1979)

• Housing Act 1988 (28/1988), other than ss. 27 and 28

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1992 (18/1992), other than ss. 29 and 30 and ss. 38(3) and (4)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997 (21/1997), other than ss. 16, 17 and 24(3)

• Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 (33/1998), other than ss. 26 and 27

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 (9/2002), other than ss. 17 to 20, 22, 23 and 24 and schs. 2 and 3

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2004 (43/2004), other than s. 2

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (22/2009), other than s. 100

• Housing (Amendment) Act 2013 (22/2013)

• Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), ss. 1(4), 5(3), sch. 2 part 1, sch. 4 paras. 1 and 14m and sch. 4 para. 16, in so far as they relate to the Housing Act 1966

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (21/2014)

• Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 (42/2015), ss. 1(3), 15, 85 and 87

• Housing (Regulation of Approved Housing Bodies) Act 2019 (47/2019), ss. 1(2), 67

• Affordable Housing Act 2021 (25/2021)

Acts previously included in this collective citation and construction but now repealed are:

• Housing Act 1969 (16/1969)

• Housing Act 1970 (18/1970)

• Housing Act 1984 (1/1984)

Annotations

This Revised Act is annotated and includes textual and non-textual amendments, statutory instruments made pursuant to the Act and previous affecting provisions.

An explanation of how to read annotations is available at

www.lawreform.ie/annotations.

Material not updated in this revision

Where other legislation is amended by this Act, those amendments may have been superseded by other amendments in other legislation, or the amended legislation may have been repealed or revoked. This information is not represented in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the amended legislation if one is available.

Where legislation or a fragment of legislation is referred to in annotations, changes to this legislation or fragment may not be reflected in this revision but will be reflected in a revision of the legislation referred to if one is available.

A list of legislative changes to any Act, and to statutory instruments from 1972, may be found linked from the page of the Act or statutory instrument at

www.irishstatutebook.ie.

Acts which affect or previously affected this revision

• Affordable Housing Act 2021 (25/2021)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (21/2014)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009 (22/2009)

• Residential Tenancies Act 2004 (27/2004)

• Health Act 2004 (42/2004)

• Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998 (33/1998)

All Acts up to and including Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act (32/2021), enacted 23 July 2021, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Finance (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (S.I. No. 418 of 2011)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1997 (Commencement) Order 1997 (S.I. No. 247 of 1997)

All statutory instruments up to and including Affordable Housing Act 2021 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) Order 2021 (S.I. No. 450 of 2021), made 2 September 2021, were considered in the preparation of this revision.