Expenses incurred by the Ministry or by any other Government department under or in consequence of the passing of this Part of this Act shall be defrayed either out of moneys provided by Parliament or (if the Ministry of Finance so directs) by means of sums charged on and issued out of the Consolidated Fund of Northern Ireland. For the purpose of providing any sums so issued out of the said Consolidated Fund the Ministry of Finance may, if it thinks fit, borrow any sum …F1 and any annuity created for the repayment of such borrowing shall be defrayed out of moneys provided by Parliament.
S.18 rep. by 1948 c.9 (NI)
(1)The Ministry may make regulations prescribing anything which is to be prescribed, and providing for any matter in regard to which regulations may be made under this Part of this Act, and generally for carrying this Part of this Act into effect.
(2)All regulations made under this Part of this Act shall, as soon as may be after they are made, be laid before each House of Parliament. If either House of Parliament, within the statutory period next after any regulation made as aforesaid has been laid before such House, resolves that the regulation shall be annulled, the regulation shall, after the date of the resolution, be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything previously done thereunder or to the making of a new regulation.
(1)In this Part of this Act, unless the contrary intention appears, the following expressions have the meanings hereby assigned to them, that is to say:—
Act of 1945 has the meaning assigned to it by paragraph ( a) of section two of this Act;
Definition spent
contravention in relation to any provision or condition includes a failure to comply with that provision or condition (as the case may be);
Housing Acts means the Housing Acts (Northern Ireland), 1890 to 1945, and includes, unless the context otherwise requires, this Part of this Act;
housing authority includes both a local authorityF2 and the Northern Ireland Housing TrustF2 but does not include a housing association or other body;
land includes water and any interest in land or water and any easement or right in, to or over land or water;
Definition spent
new house means a house, the erection of which is commenced after a scheme submitted in respect thereof has been approved by a local authorityF2 …F3;
prescribed means prescribed by regulations made by the Ministry;
statutory period means …
definition in 1954 c.33 (NI) s.41(2) substituted by 1979 NI 12 art.10
superficial area in relation to a new house means the area of that house calculated in accordance with such method as may be prescribed;
the Ministry has the meaning assigned to that expression by sub-section (1) of section one of this Act.
(2)This Part of this Act shall be construed as one with the Housing Acts and those Acts and this Part of this Act may together be cited as the Housing Acts (Northern Ireland), 1890 to 1946.
F2Functions transf., 1971 c.5 (NI)