Housing Act 1957

PART I Ascertainment of Amount Payable for Well-maintained Houses

1 The payment in respect of a house under section thirty or section sixty of this Act shall be an amount ascertained in accordance with the provisions of this Part of this Schedule.

2 (1) The payment shall be of an amount equal either—

(a) to the amount by which the aggregate expenditure which is shown to the satisfaction of the local authority to have been incurred in maintaining the house during the five years immediately before the date on which the relevant order was made exceeds an amount equal to one and one-quarter times the rateable value of the house, or

(b) to the rateable value of the house multiplied by the appropriate multiplier,

whichever is the greater:

Provided that the payment shall not in any case exceed the difference between the full value of the house (that is to say the amount which would have been payable as compensation if it had been purchased compulsorily but not as being unfit for human habitation) and the site value thereof (that is to say the amount which is payable as compensation by virtue of its being purchased compulsorily as being unfit for human habitation, or which would have been so payable if it had been so purchased), and any question as to such value shall be determined, in default of agreement, as if it had been a question of disputed compensation arising on such a purchase.

(2) No payment shall be made under this paragraph to any person in respect of a house where a payment falls to be made in respect of an interest of that person in that house under Part II of this Schedule :

Provided that where the payment under Part II of this Schedule falls to be made in relation to part only of the house, this sub-paragraph shall not apply to so much of any amount which has been paid or which would otherwise be payable under this Part of this Schedule as may reasonably be attributed to the remainder of the house.

3 (1) In the foregoing provisions of this Schedule "the appropriate multiplier " means—

(a) if at the date of the making of the relevant order the house is occupied by the owner thereof and has been owned or occupied by him or by a member of his family continuously during the three years immediately before that date, three times or such other multiple as may be prescribed;

(b) if at the said date the house is not so occupied, one-and-a-half times or such other multiple as may be prescribed.

In this sub-paragraph " prescribed " means prescribed by an order made by the Minister by statutory instrument which shall be of no effect until it is approved by a resolution of each House of Parliament.

(2) In .this Part of this Schedule " rateable value " means in relation to a house the value which, in the valuation list in force at the date on which the relevant order is made, is shown on that date as the rateable value of the house, or, where the net annual value differs from the rateable value, as the net annual value.