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decrease in the number of applications, not only for certificates of disrepair
but also for cancellation of such certificates, and for certificates as to the
remedying of defects.
Applications for certificates of disrepair totalled twenty-six; eight
certificates were issued and in five instances the applications were refused
because the necessary work was carried out between the time of the issue of the
Council's notice of proposal to issue a certificate of disrepair and the date
on which such a certificate could have been issued. Undertakings to remedy
defects given by landlords totalled eleven, of which ten were accepted and
one was refused because the landlord concerned had failed to comply with an
undertaking given previously in respect of the same property.
Of the thirty five applications for the cancellation of certificates of
disrepair, seventeen related to certificates issued under the Housing Repairs
and Rents Act, 1954 A total of twenty-one certificates were cancelled, and
cancellation was refused in seventeen instances; two applications were outstanding
at the end of the year. It is of interest to note that in 1959 out
of a total of thirty-eight applications for cancellation of certificates of
disrepair only twelve objections were received, the corresponding figures for
1960 were thirty-five and nineteen; in each of the two years the objections
were deemed to be unjustified in three instances.
Applications for certificates as to the remedying of defects were received
from eight tenants, all of whom were granted certificates that their landlords
had failed to remedy the defects which they had undertaken to remedy A total
of twenty-two landlords applied for certificates that they had complied with
their undertakings; in sixteen cases certificates were issued to the effect
that the defects had been remedied, and in six cases that the defects had not
been remedied.
The action taken under this Act during the year is summarized in the
following table:-
APPLICATIONS TOR CERTIFICATES OP DISREPAIR
OR
CANCELLATION OP SUCH CERTIFICATES
(1) Certificates of Disrepair
Number of applications received (Form I) 26 (633)
Number of notices to landlords of proposal to issue Certificates
of Disrepair (Form J) 26 (612)
Number of undertakings to remedy defects given by landlords
(Form K) 11 (365)
Number of undertakings accepted 10 (348)
Number of undertakings refused 1 ( 17)
Number of certificates of disrepair issued (Form L) 8 (224)
Number of applications refused 5 ( 45)
Number of applications withdrawn 3 ( 13)
(2) Cancellation of Certificates of Disrepair
Number of applications received (Form M) 35 (192)
Number of such applications relating to certificates issued
under the Housing Repairs and Rents Act, 1954 17 ( 65)
Number of notices of proposal to cancel certificates of
disrepair sent to tenants (Form N) 35 (192)
Number of objections received 19 ( 68)
Number of objections deemed to be justified 17 ( 54)
Number of objections deemed to be not justified 3 ( 13)
Number of certificates CANCELLED 21 (136)
Number of applications for cancellation refused 17 ( 54)