Housing Act 1957

92 Mode of provision of accommodation

(1) A local authority may provide housing accommodation—

(a) by the erection of houses on any land acquired or appropriated by them,

(b) by the conversion of any buildings into houses,

(c) by acquiring houses,

(d) by altering, enlarging, repairing or improving any houses or buildings which have, or an estate or interest in which has, been acquired by the local authority.

Any such powers as aforesaid may, for supplying the needs of the district, be exercised outside the district of the local authority.

(2) The local authority may alter, enlarge, repair or improve any house so erected, converted or acquired.

(3) It shall be the duty of a local authority for the purposes of this Part of this Act by whom any house is erected under the enactments relating to housing, whether with or without financial assistance from the Government, to secure—

(a) that a fair wages clause complying with the requirements of any resolution of the Commons House of Parliament for the time being in force with respect to contracts for Government departments is inserted in all contracts for the erection of the house, and

(b) except in so far as the Minister may, in any particular case, dispense with the observance of this paragraph, that the house is provided with a fixed bath in a bathroom.

(4) For the purposes of this Part of this Act " provision of housing accommodation" includes the provision of lodging-houses, and separate houses or cottages containing one or several tenements, and, in the case of a cottage, a cottage with a garden of not more than one acre.