Housing Act 1961

1Dwellings qualifying for subsidies

(1)Exchequer subsidies shall be payable out of money provided by Parliament in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Act in respect of, and in certain circumstances in respect of the site of, any new dwelling which is—

(a)provided by a local authority in the exercise of their powers to provide housing accommodation, or

(b)provided by a development corporation otherwise than in pursuance of authorised arrangements made with a local authority, or

(c)provided by a development corporation in pursuance of authorised arrangements made with a local authority, or

(d)provided by a housing association in pursuance of authorised arrangements made with a local authority or special arrangements made with the Minister,

and which is approved for the purposes of those provisions by the Minister.

Such a dwelling which is so approved is hereafter in this Part of this Act referred to as an " approved dwelling ".

(2)Any exchequer subsidy payable under this Part of this Act shall be paid to the authority or other person by whom the dwelling was provided, except that an exchequer subsidy payable in respect of, or of the site of, a dwelling provided b pursuance of authorised arrangements made with a local luthority shall be paid to the local authority, who shall pay to the development corporation or housing association, as the case may be, by way of annual grant an amount not less than the exchequer subsidy.

(3)An exchequer subsidy shall not be payable under this Part of this Act in respect of a dwelling or the site of a dwelling except where—

(a)in the case where the dwelling falls under paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) of this section, the tender or estimate for its erection was accepted by a formal resolution of the authority or corporation passed on or after the sixteenth day of February, nineteen hundred and sixty-one;

(b)in a case where the dwelling falls under paragraph (c) or paragraph (d) of subsection (1) of this section, the arrangements were made on or after the said sixteenth day of February:

Provided that—

(i)a formal resolution passed as aforesaid accepting a tender or estimate which was submitted to the Minister for approval before the said sixteenth day of February shall be deemed for the purposes of this subsection to have been passed before that day; and

(ii)where, on approving any authorised arrangements made with a local authority on or after the said sixteenth day of February the Minister is satisfied that the substantial effect of those arrangements had been agreed between the parties before that day, those arrangements shall be deemed for the purposes of this subsection to have been made before that day.

(4)In section four of the New Towns Act, 1959 (under which exchequer subsidies under section one of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1958, are payable in respect of dwellings provided by the Commission for the New Towns), for references to such exchequer subsidies there shall be substituted references to exchequer subsidies under this section, and exchequer subsidies payable by virtue of this subsection shall, subject to the provisions of the said section four, be payable in accordance with the provisions of this Act and the said Act of 1958 applying in relation to approved dwellings provided by a development corporation otherwise than in pursuance of authorised arrangements.

(5)No subsidy shall be payable under section one of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1958, in respect of any dwelling qualified to be considered for approval by the Minister under subsection (1) of this section.