View report page

40
SECTION D.
HOUSING.
Clearance Areas and Individual Unfit Dwellings.
During the year the last remaining clearance area was dealt with
by way of two Closing and four Demolition Orders.
There are approximately 15 individual houses which, subject to a
detailed inspection, will need to be dealt with in a similar manner to
complete our programme.
Rent Act, 1957.
This Act came into force on the 6th July, 1957.
The role of the Health Department in the administration of the
Act is confined almost entirely to the consideration of applications
made by tenants of controlled houses for Certificates of Disrepair.
In broad terms, the possession of this Certificate enables a tenant
to resist the rent increase permitted by the Act and the granting of a
Certificate is justified only where the dwelling is in disrepair by reason
of defects which ought reasonably to be remedied "having due regard
to the age, character and locality of the dwelling".
Only one application for a Certificate of Disrepair was received
during the year.
Housing Act, 1961.
This Act extends and amends the principal Act of 1957.
Forty applications for Improvement Grants were approved
during the year, thirty-two of these being from owner/occupiers.