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(2) Cancellation of Certificates of Disrepair
Number of applications received (Form M) 19
Number of such applications relating to certificates issued under
the Housing Reoairs and Rents Act, 1954 11
Number of notices of proposal to cancel certificates of disrepair
sent to tenants (Form N) 19
Number of objections received 2
Number of objections deemed to be justified 2
Number of objections deemed to be not justified Nil
Number of certificates CANCELLED 10
Number of applications for cancellation refused 2
(3) Certificates as to Remedy ing of Defects
Number of applications received (Form 0) .. .. Nil
HOUSING REPAIRS AND RENTS ACT, 1954
As from the coming into operation of the Rent Act, 1957, the provisions
relating to Certificates of Disrepair contained in the 1954 Act were repealed
with the proviso that a Certificate of Disrepair issued under the earlier Act
shall remain effective insofar as it could have been given under the new Act.
Applications under the 1954 Act dealt with between 1st January and the 5th
of July were as follows -
(a) Certificates of disrepair
Number of applications received 6 (507)
Number of certificates issued 6 (464)
Number of applications refused - ( 20)
Number of applications withdrawn - ( 23)
(b) Revo cation of certificates of disrepair
Number of applications received 16 (321)
Number of applications granted 15 (280)
Number of applications refused 2 ( 41)
The figures in brackets are the totals for the period of the 1954 Act, i.e.
30th August, 1954 to 5th July, 1957.
RENT ACT BUREAU
Following the coming into operation of the Rent Act, 1957 the Council
decided to set up a special information service dealing with the various
aspects of the Act. Apart from normal office hours, this service was made
available on Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings until seven o'clock. The
extended hours operated from the 29th July until the 20th of December, 1957,
and the following departments participated:
Town Clerk's Department - General information on the operation of the Act.
Borough Treasurer and Accountant's department - information regarding
gross and rateable values, and also the sale of certain of the forms
prescribed by the Regulations made under the Act.
Public Health Department - General information as to the procedure for
securing the remedying of defects.
The number of enquiries dealt with in the Public Health Department during
this period totalled 1,837.