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717
Unhealthy Areas.
Areas represented to the Local Authority, with a view to
Improvement Schemes under (a), Part I, or (b), Part II,
of the Act of 1890 0
1.—Number of houses not complying with the building
bye-laws erected with consent of Local Authority under section
25 of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919 0
2.—Staff engaged on housing work:—
Two Sanitary Inspectors.
One Clerk and part-time Sanitary Inspector.
Increase of Rent and Mortgage Interest (Restrictions)
Act, 1920 and 1923. Section 2 (2).
This sub-section provides that "at any time or times not
being less than three months after the date of any increased rent
permitted by the Act, the tenant is entitled to apply to the County
Court for an order suspending the increases if he considers that the
premises are not in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation,
or otherwise not in a reasonable state of repair. He will be required
to satisfy the County Court by a report of the Sanitary Authority,
or otherwise, that his application is well founded, and for this purpose
is entitled to apply to the Sanitary Authority for a
certificate."
Sixteen applications were made to the Authority during
the year, and in every instance a certificate was granted.
In practice the certificate, without being taken to the Court,
is retained as a valid defence should the landlord contest the
deduction made from the gross rent by the tenant.