Department of Local Government. Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 To 1948. The Housing (Reconstructed Houses) Regulations, 1948.
Statutory Instruments
Source: Statutory Instruments

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paragraphs: These Regulations may be cited as the Housing (Reconstructed Houses) Regulations, 1948.
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paragraphs: In these regulations—
the expression " the Minister " means the Minister for Local Government ;
the expression " the Acts " means the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Acts, 1932 to 1948 ;
the expression " the act of 1948 " means the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1948 ;
the expression " appointed officer " means an officer appointed by the Minister for the purposes of the Housing (Financial and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1932 .
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paragraphs: These Regulations shall apply only to houses in respect of the reconstruction of which a grant is sought by a person from the Minister under Section 16 of the Act of 1948.
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paragraphs: The procedure set out in Schedule I to these Regulations shall be complied with before and during the reconstruction of each house by the person proposing to reconstruct or reconstructing the same and by the appointed officer.
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paragraphs: The forms set out in Schedule II to these Regulations or forms to the like effect varied as circumstances may require shall be prescribed forms and shall be used for the purposes for which they are respectively expressed to be applicable in relation to the reconstruction by a person of a house to which these Regulations apply.
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paragraphs: The date when the reconstruction of a house to which these Regulations apply is begun shall be deemed to be the date when the actual building work is begun, notwithstanding any demolition, clearance, cartage of materials or other preliminary work carried out prior to that date.
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paragraphs: Where a certificate of an appointed officer required by these Regulations that any of the provisions of the Acts or of these Regulations have been complied with has been issued in relation to a house to which these Regulations apply, no grant shall be payable until the Minister is satisfied as to the accuracy of such certificate.
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paragraphs: —(1) The floor area of a house to which these Regulations apply shall be the sum of the areas of every floor.
(2) The area of any floor shall be measured within the external or containing walls of the house and shall include any portion of such floor which is occupied by staircases, landings, interior walls, chimney breasts, bay-windows and similar spaces or structures.
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paragraphs: Where a house to which these Regulations apply is to contain or be connected with a shop, office, business premises, garage or stable—
(a) the appointed officer shall not grant a certificate of approval in respect thereof unless such shop, office, business premises, garage or stable has a distinct and separate entrance;
(b) such shop, office, business premises, garage or stable shall be deemed not to be part of such house for the purposes of the Acts and of these Regulations.
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paragraphs: —(1) The Minister shall not make a grant in respect of the reconstruction of a house unless such house is certified by the appointed officer or on appeal by the Minister to be suitable for reconstruction.
(2) The Minister may pay an instalment of a grant when at least one-half (measured in value) of the work of reconstruction has been certified by the appointed officer or on appeal by the Minister to have been carried out in a proper and workmanlike manner.
(3) The final payment of the grant shall not be made until the reconstruction shall have been certified by the appointed officer or on appeal by the Minister to have been completed in a proper and workmanlike manner.
(4) Any person aggrieved by the neglect or refusal of the appointed officer to give a certificate required by any of the foregoing paragraphs of this Regulation may appeal to the Minister and on such appeal the Minister may, as he shall think proper, give or refuse such certificate and the decision of the Minister on such appeal shall be final.
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paragraphs: Materials and appliances manufactured or produced in Ireland shall be used as far as possible in the work of reconstruction of a house to which these Regulations apply.
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paragraphs: —(1) Any doubt, dispute or question which may arise as to the interpretation of these Regulations and as to the making or the amount of a grant in respect of any house to which these Regulations apply shall be determined by the Minister and such determination shall be final.
(2) For the purpose of determining whether a grant may be made or the amount of a grant in respect of any house to which these Regulations apply, the Minister may require satisfactory evidence (and in particular may require a statutory declaration under the Statutory Declarations Act, 1938 ) that the provisions of the Acts and the Regulations made thereunder have been complied with.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Local Government this thirty-first day of March, in the Year One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.
(Signed) T. J. MURPHY.
Minister for Local Government.
The Minister for Finance hereby consents to the foregoing Regulations.
GIVEN under the Official Seal of the Minister for Finance this thirty-first day of March, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Forty-eight.
(Signed) J. J. McELLIGOTT,
Secretary, Department of Finance.