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Loans granted under Section 4 Housing Act, 1949
I would say immediately that the Public Health Department
has welcomed the opportunity of assisting the Council in
this question of Section 4 of the Housing Act, 1949. It is
constructive work which calls for the skill of the Sanitary
Inspector in accordance with the training and experience which
his profession has given him.
A further duty that has fallen upon the Department is
the issue of rent repairs certificates. As the Council well
know a landlord may not put up his rent if his tenant can
produce a certificate to the effect that the house is (a) not
in good repair, (b) is not reasonably suitable for occupation.
The Medical Officer of Health sees this Section of
the Act neither as a means whereby a landlord can increase his
profit, nor the issue of a certificate as the opportunity of a
tenant to keep his rent at its pristine level. He sees it from