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Housing Repairs and Rents Act 1954

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PART IIIMiscellaneous and General Provisions

50Exclusion of statutory tenants from receipt of certain notices

(1)For the purposes of head (b) of sub-paragraph (1) of paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the Acquisition of Land (Authorisation Procedure) Act, 1946 (which provides for the service of notice of a compulsory purchase order on every owner, lessee or occupier of the land except tenants for a month or less) and of any corresponding enactment regulating the service of notices in connection with the compulsory purchase of land (including any such enactment contained in a local Act), an occupier being a statutory tenant within the meaning of Part II of this Act shall be deemed to be a tenant for a period less than a month.

(2)The foregoing subsection shall apply in relation to the following enactments, that is to say:—

(a)paragraph (b) of subsection (3) of section thirty-five of the Housing Act, 1936 (which relates to redevelopment plans);

(b)sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 of the Third Schedule to that Act (which relates to clearance orders);

(c)sub-paragraph (b) of paragraph 3 of the First Schedule to the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act, 1949 (which relates to orders designating national parks and other orders under that Act);

(d)any local enactment regulating the service of notices in respect of the proposed exercise of any powers in relation to land,

as it applies in relation to the enactments therein referred to.

51Application of Statutory Instruments Act

Any power of the Minister to make regulations or orders under this Act shall be exercisable by statutory instrument.

52Interpretation

(1)In this Act " the Minister " means the Minister of Housing and Local Government.

(2)Any reference in this Act to any enactment is a reference thereto as amended, extended or applied by any subsequent enactment including any local enactment and including, unless the context otherwise requires, this Act.

53Financial provisions

There shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament any increase attributable to this Act in the sums payable out of such moneys under section one hundred and seventy-three of the Housing Act, 1936, paragraph 5 of the Schedule to the Furnished Houses (Rent Control) Act, 1946, section fifteen, nineteen or twenty-five of the Housing Act, 1949, or Part I of the Local Government Act, 1948.

54Short title, commencement, extent and repeals

(1)This Act may be cited as the Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954.

(2)This Act shall come into operation on the expiration of the period of one month beginning with the date on which it is passed.

(3)This Act shall not extend to Scotland or Northern Ireland.

(4)The enactments and regulations mentioned in the Fifth Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule:

Provided that this subsection has effect subject to subsection (7) of section six of this Act and to subsection (2) of section twenty-seven thereof.

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