Number 21 of 2014

HOUSING (MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS) ACT 2014

REVISED

Updated to 11 July 2022

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 Act 1969 (16/1969)

• Housing Act 1970 (18/1970)

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

• Housing Act 1984 (1/1984)

• 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 s. 24(3)

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

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2002 (9/2002), apart from ss. 17-20, 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 14 and Sch. 4, para. 16 in so far as they relate to the Housing Act 1966 (21/1966)

• 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), s. 67

• Affordable Housing Act 2021 (25/2021)

Local Government Acts 1925 to 2019: this Act, s. 57, is one of a group of Acts included in this collective citation, to be construed together as one (Local Government Act 2019 (1/2019), s. 1(3)). The Acts in this group are:

• Local Government Act 1925 (5/1925)

• Local Government Act 1927 (3/1927)

• Local Government (Amendment) Act 1930 (26/1930)

• Local Government Act 1931 (19/1931)

• Local Government Act 1933 (5/1933)

• Local Government (Amendment) Act 1934 (5/1934)

• Local Government (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 1934 (44/1934)

• Local Government Act 1936 (46/1936)

• Local Government (Amendment) Act 1939 (9/1939)

• Local Government Act 1941 (23/1941)

• Local Government Act 1946 (24/1946)

• Local Government Act 1953 (12/1953)

• Local Government Act 1955 (9/1955)

• Local Government Act 1958 (9/1958)

• Local Government Act 1959 (10/1959)

• Local Government Act 1960 (23/1960)

• Local Government (No. 2) Act 1960 (40/1960)

• Local Government (Buncrana) Act 1968 (2/1968)

• Local Government (Rateability of Rents) (Abolition) Act 1971 (15/1971), in so far as it amends the Local Government Acts 1925 to 1967

• Local Government (Roads and Motorways) Act 1974 (6/1974)

• Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1978 (35/1978)

• Local Government (Toll Roads) Act 1979 (34/1979)

• Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1983 (10/1983)

• Local Government (Financial Provisions) (No. 2) Act 1983 (21/1983)

• Local Government (Reorganisation) Act 1985 (7/1985)

• Local Government Act 1991 (11/1991)

• Local Government Act 1994 (8/1994)

• Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 1997 (29/1997)

• Local Government Act 1998 (16/1998)

• Local Government (Financial Provisions) Act 2000 (6/2000)

• Local Government Act 2000 (25/2000)

• Local Government Act 2001 (37/2001), other than ss. 163, 164 and 211 and pts. 23 (ss. 238-234) and 24 (ss. 243-247)

• Local Government Act 2003 (8/2003)

• Local Government (No. 2) Act 2003 (17/2003)

• Electoral (Amendment) Act 2004 (15/2004), s. 34

• Local Government (Business Improvement Districts) Act 2006 (42/2006), ss. 2-7

• Water Services Act 2007 (30/2007), ss. 1(7), 13 and 115

• Copyright and Related Rights (Amendment) Act 2007 (39/2007), s. 14

• Local Government (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2012 (17/2012), pt. 4

• Electoral, Local Government and Planning and Development Act 2013 (27/2013), pt. 9

• Local Government Reform Act 2014 (1/2014), other than ss. 1(3)-(8), 5(3)-(5) and Sch. 2

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (21/2014), s. 57

• Planning and Development (Housing) and Residential Tenancies Act 2016 (17/2016), ss. 1(2)(c), 52

• Local Government Act 2019 (1/2019), s. 1(2)

• Local Government Rates and other Matters Act 2019 (24/2019), other than ss. 23, 24, 25, 26

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

• Finance (Local Property Tax) (Amendment) Act 2021 (31/2021)

• Affordable Housing Act 2021 (25/2021)

• Residential Tenancies (Amendment) Act 2015 (42/2015)

All Acts up to and including Institutional Burials Act 2022 (18/2022), enacted 13 July 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.

Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 342 of 2022)

• Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (S.I. No. 776 of 2021)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 56 of 2017)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) Regulations 2017 (S.I. No. 55 of 2017)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 575 of 2016)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 574 of 2016)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 354 of 2016)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 338 of 2016)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 40 of 2016)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) Regulations 2016 (S.I. No. 38 of 2016)

• Housing (Sale of Local Authority Houses) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 484 of 2015)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) (No. 2) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 482 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 4) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 474 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) (No. 3) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 473 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 3) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 304 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 246 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 245 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 200 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 199 of 2015)

• Housing (Local Authority Tenancy Warnings) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 122 of 2015)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 121 of 2015)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 576 of 2014)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) (No. 3) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 575 of 2014)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 428 of 2014)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) (No. 2) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 427 of 2014)

• Housing Assistance Payment Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 407 of 2014)

• Housing Assistance Payment (Section 50) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 406 of 2014)

• Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2014 (Commencement of Certain Provisions) Order 2014 (S.I. No. 404 of 2014)

All statutory instruments up to and including Housing Assistance Payment (Amendment) Regulations 2022 (S.I. No. 342 of 2022), made 6 July 2022, were considered in the preparation of this revision.