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Section 3. Loans may now be made for any period up to 80
years by the Public Works Loan Commissioners and by extending
the burden over a longer period, together with a condition that only
the lowest rate of interest allowed for the time being for loans out
of the Local Loans Fund shall be payable, the number of schemes
that will be practicable may be greater than under previous Acts.
Under Section 9, sums that have not been applied to the purposes
for which they were bequeathed may be followed and brought
into use.
Section 14. The raising of the rental to £40 in London, £26
in a Borough or Urban District with a population of 50,000 and
£16 elsewhere, of a house to which the implied condition that on
taking it the house is reasonably fit for human habitation shall
attach, also (Section 15) that the landlord shall maintain it in this
condition during the holding, will be valuable in association with
the means of enforcing the condition on the part of the Local
Authority by having the required work done in default of the landlord
and recovering the expenses as a civil debt. Many houses may
so be dealt with where it would be almost impossible to convince a
Court of Summary Jurisdiction that the house is in such a state as
to be injurious or dangerous to health and unfit for human
habitation.
Now that by sub-section 7, landlord means any "letter" the
Council will have a wider field to choose from in deciding as to
which one is most worth powder and shot.
In order that the condition shall not be implied under Sections
14 and 15 the following three conditions must all be present:—
(a). The house or part of a house is let for a term of 3
year or more than 3 years.
(b). There is an expressed condition that the Lessee
shall repair.
(c). Neither party can terminate the contract before the
expiry of three years.