Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1946

6 Transitional provisions.

(1) After the passing of this Act no contribution shall be payable under section one of the [1 & 2 Geo. 6. c. 38.] Housing (Agricultural Population) (Scotland) Act, 1938, or section one of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1938, in respect of a new house or any accommodation deemed to be a new house completed after the seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-four.

(2) Where in accordance with proposals approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section one of the Housing (Agricultural Population) (Scotland) Act, 1938, or of section one of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1938, a house or any accommodation deemed to be a new house has been completed after the seventh day of March, nineteen hundred and forty-four, then—

(a) this Act shall, for the purposes of the payment of contributions in respect of the house or accommodation, be deemed to have been passed immediately before the completion of the house or accommodation ;

(b) if the house has been provided for the agricultural population it shall be deemed to have been approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of section three of this Act, and in any other case the house or accommodation shall be deemed to have been approved for the purposes of section one of this Act; and

(c) any sums which have before the passing of this Act been paid out of moneys provided by Parliament in respect of the house or accommodation on account of contributions under either of the said Acts of 1938 or otherwise shall be applied in or towards the satisfaction of any contributions which become payable in respect of the house or the accommodation by virtue of this Act.

(3) Subsection (1) of section forty-seven of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act, 1945 (which provides for the payment in certain cases of subsidy under the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act, 1938, in respect of housing accommodation provided on land acquired under the said Act of 1945) is hereby repealed.