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HOUSING (IRELAND) ACT 1919

HOUSING (IRELAND) ACT 1919 - LONG TITLE

An Act to amend the enactments relating to the Housing of the
Working Classes and the acquisition of Small Dwellings in Ireland.
[15th August 1919]
PART I
S.22 rep. by 1978 NI 4 art.16(2) sch.2 Pt.I. S.23 rep. by 1921
c.19 ss.10(2), 11(4) sch.; 1931 c.12 (NI) s.31(8). S.24 rep. by SLR
1927. S.25 rep. by 1976 NI 25 art.80(4) sch.6 Pt.II; 1981 NI 3
art.163(2) sch.13(a)A power to make a grant in fee simple or
absolutely or a lease for any term of years for a nominal price
or rent or for less than the best price or rent which could be
obtained for the purpose of the erection thereon of dwellings ...
or the provision of gardens to be held in connection therewith:

Provided that no more than two acres shall be granted as a site
for such dwellings or gardens in any one parish in an urban
district, or in any one townland in a rural district, without
payment of the full price or rent for the excess, except under an
order of the court:

(b)A power, where money is required for the provision of dwellings
..., to raise the money on mortgage of the settled land, or of
any part thereof, by conveyance of the fee simple or other the
estate subject to the settlement or by creation of a term of years
in the settled land or any part thereof or otherwise, and the
money so raised shall be capital money for that purpose, and may
be paid or applied accordingly.

Ss.2732 rep. by SLR 1927; 1931 c.12 (NI) s.39; 1946 c.20 (NI)
s.17(3) sch.6; 1971 c.16 (NI) s.54 sch.7; 1981 NI 3 art.163(2)
sch.13

HOUSING (IRELAND) ACT 1919 - SECT 33
Construction.

33. This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the
Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1908, and
any provisions of this Part of this Act which supersede or amend
any provisions of the Act of 1890 shall be deemed to be part of
that Part of the Act of 1890 in which the provisions superseded or
amended are contained, and references in this Part of this Act to
any provision of the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts,
1890 to 1908, shall be construed as references to that provision as
amended by any subsequent enactment including this Part of this Act.

In this Part of this Act

Definition rep. by 1976 NI 25 art.80(4) sch.6 Pt.II

The expression "sale" includes sale in consideration of an annual
rentcharge or fee farm rent, and the expression "sell" has a
corresponding meaning;

Definitions rep. by 1976 NI 25 art.80(4) sch.6 Pt.II

The expression "... byelaws" includes byelaws made by any sanitary
authority under section forty-one of the Public Health (Ireland) Act,
1878, as amended by any subsequent enactment with respect to ...
new streets, and any enactments in section one hundred and nine of
the Towns Improvement Clauses Act, 1847, or section forty-three of
the Towns Improvement (Ireland) Act, 1854, or in any local Acts
dealing with ... the laying out and construction and drainage of
new streets, and any byelaws made with respect to such matters
under any such local Act;

The expression "Housing Acts" means the Housing of the Working
Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to 1908, and this Act so far as it
amends those Acts.

Part II (s.34) amends s.1 of 1899 c.44

Extent of Act.

HOUSING (IRELAND) ACT 1919 - SECT 35

35. This Act shall ... extend to Ireland only.

HOUSING (IRELAND) ACT 1919 - SECT 36
Short title and citation.

36.(1) This Act may be cited as the Housing (Ireland) Act, 1919,
and the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts, 1890 to
1908, and this Act, so far as it amends those Acts, may be cited
collectively as the Housing of the Working Classes (Ireland) Acts,
1890 to 1919.

(2) The Small Dwellings Acquisition Act, 1899, and Part II of this
Act may be cited together as the Small Dwellings Acquisition
(Ireland) Acts, 1899 and 1919.

First Schedule rep. by 1964 c.26 (NI) s.14 sch. Second Schedule
rep. by SLR 1927. Third Schedule amends s.93 of 1890 c.70, residue
rep. by 1971 c.16 (NI) s.54 sch.7