Introductory Text
PART I Further Provisions as to Clearance and Redevelopment, Reconditioning of unfit Houses, and other Amendments of Housing Acts
Additional powers in respect of clearance areas and other houses liable to demolition
1.Proposals for exercise of functions of local authorities as to clearance areas, etc.
2.Power to retain for temporary accommodation certain houses in clearance areas
3.Power to purchase for temporary accommodation in lieu of making demolition orders
4.Postponement of demolition under clearance order in the case of houses let to local authority
5.Power to permit reconstruction of condemned house
6.Licences for temporary occupation of houses subject to existing demolition or clearance orders
Exchequer contributions, etc.
7.Exchequer contributions towards expenses of local authorities in buying houses for temporary occupation
8.Local authorities' contributions
Standard of fitness for human habitation, and provisions connected therewith
9.Standard of fitness for human habitation
10.Recovery by lessees of proportion of expenses incurred in rendering houses fit for human habitation
11.Houses let in lodgings : securing fitness for occupation by number of families accommodated
12.Houses let in lodgings : prevention of overcrowding
13.Powers of local authorities for enforcement of notices under s. 9 of principal Act
Miscellaneous amendments of Housing Acts
14.Amendments as to clearance orders and compulsory purchase orders under principal Act
15.Provisions relating to Housing Revenue Accounts
16.Amendments of Housing Act, 1949
17.Powers of local authorities in connection with lending money for housing purposes
18.Default powers of county councils
19.Extension of period for use of open spaces for temporary housing accommodation
Supplemental
20.Management of houses retained by local authorities for temporary occupation
21.Application of Part I to London
22.Interpretation and construction of Part I
PART II Repairs Increase in respect of Controlled Dwelling-houses and other Amendments of the Rent Acts, etc.
Repairs Increase
23.Repairs increase for dwelling-house in good repair
24.Rent not to be increased above twice gross value
25.Notice and declarations preliminary to recovery of repairs increase
26.Determination whether conditions fulfilled to justify increase of rent
27.Application of last foregoing section to certain increases under Rent Acts
28.Passing on of repairs increase to sub-tenant
29.Repairs increase not to be payable twice over
30.Responsibility of landlord for repairs
31.Supplementary provisions as to repair
32.Apportionments by county court to be conclusive
Other amendments of Rent Acts
33.Exclusion from Rent Acts of lettings by local authorities, development corporations, and housing associations and trusts
34.Provisions taking effect on cesser of exemption under foregoing section
35.Exclusion from Rent Acts of houses converted or erected after commencement of Act
36.Amendments of s. 1 of Act of 1949
37.Application of Rent Acts to dwellings provided or improved with assistance under Part II of Housing Act, 1949
38.Exemption from s. 2 (2) of Act of 1949 for long leases
39.Payments for outgoings, improvements or goodwill on grant or assignment of controlled tenancies
40.Increase for rise in cost of services provided under pre-1939 lettings
41.Protection of sub-tenants of parts of premises
42.Amendment of meaning of expression " tenant" in Act of 1920
43.Possession without alternative accommodation not to be ordered on production of agricultural certificate
44.Date for permitted increases for increases in rates
45.Modification of Rent Acts and Act of 1946 as to accommodation registered under Defence Regulation 68 CB
46.Service of notices on prospective tenants
47.General provisions as to service of notices
48.Procedure of county court and tribunal
49.Interpretation of Part II
PART III Miscellaneous and General Provisions
50.Exclusion of statutory tenants from receipt of certain notices
51.Application of Statutory Instruments Act
52.Interpretation
53.Financial provisions
54.Short title, commencement, extent and repeals
SCHEDULES
FIRST SCHEDULE
Modifications of Procedure for Obtaining Clearance Orders and certain Compulsory Purchase Orders
1.(1) A notice relating to— (a) a compulsory purchase of...
2.(1) Where the Minister would apart from this paragraph be...
3.The shortest permissible notice required to be given under section...
SECOND SCHEDULE
Proof of Past Repairs by Landlord
1.Subject to the provisions of the next following paragraph, the...
2.Where the relevant date falls within four months of the...
3.Where— (a) under the terms of the tenancy, if the...
4.(1) Within twenty-eight days after the relevant date the tenant...
5.Subject to the provisions of the last foregoing paragraph, the...
6.If in such a declaration any person makes a statement...
7.(1) For the purposes of this Schedule work which enured...
8.For the purposes of this Schedule work shall be disregarded—...
THIRD SCHEDULE
Gross Values and Statutory Repairs Deductions
PART I Dwelling-houses in County of London
PART II Dwelling-houses outside County of London
FOURTH SCHEDULE
Modifications of Rent Acts in Application to Tenancies Previously Exempted under S. 3 (2) (c) of Act of 1939
1.In the provisions specified in the following Table there shall...
2.In the Act of 1920 the proviso to section one...
3.In subsection (4) of section four of the Act of...
4.In section six of the Act of 1933 for the...
FIFTH SCHEDULE
Repeals