Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997


Number 21 of 1997


HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1997

REVISED

Updated to 3 September 2021


This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 1997. 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 Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Act 2021 (32/2021), enacted 23 July 2021, and all statutory instruments up to and including the 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 Revised Act.

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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.


Number 21 of 1997


HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1997

REVISED

Updated to 3 September 2021


ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS


Acts Referred to

Consumer Credit Act, 1995

1995, No. 24

Health Act, 1970

1970, No. 1

Housing Act, 1966

1966, No. 21

Housing Act, 1988

1988, No. 28

Housing Acts, 1966 to 1992

Housing Finance Agency Act, 1981

1981, No. 37

Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1992

1992, No. 18

Misuse of Drugs Acts, 1977 and 1984

Social Welfare Acts

Social Welfare (Consolidation) Act, 1993

1993, No. 27


Number 21 of 1997


HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 1997

REVISED

Updated to 3 September 2021


AN ACT TO AMEND AND EXTEND THE HOUSING ACTS, 1966 TO 1992, AND THE SOCIAL WELFARE ACTS, TO MAKE PROVISION IN RELATION TO INTIMIDATION OF CERTAIN PERSONS AND TO PROVIDE FOR CERTAIN OTHER MATTERS IN RELATION TO HOUSING. [7th May, 1997]

BE IT ENACTED BY THE OIREACHTAS AS FOLLOWS: