House Purchase and Housing Act 1959

29 Interpretation

(1) In this Act—

• " the Act of 1950 " means the Housing (Scotland) Act, 1950;

• " the Act of 1958 " means the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act, 1958;

• " controlled tenancy " has the same meaning as in the Rent Act, 1957;

• " improvement grant " means a grant under section thirty of the Act of 1958 or under section one hundred and eleven of the Act of 1950 ;

• " the Minister " means the Minister of Housing and Local Government or, as respects Scotland, the Secretary of State;

• " permanent building society " means a society incorporated under the Building Societies Acts, 1874 to 1940, which is a permanent society within the meaning of those Acts;

• " standard amenities " and " standard grant " have, in Part II of this Act, the meanings assigned to them by section four of this Act and, in Part III of this Act, the meanings assigned to them by section nineteen thereof;

• " the valuation officer ", in relation to a valuation list, means any officer of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue who is for the time being appointed by the Commissioners to be the valuation officer or one of the valuation officers, or to be the deputy valuation officer or one of the deputy valuation officers, in relation to that list.

(2) Section four of the Housing Act, 1957, and, in Scotland, subsection (2) of section one hundred and eighty-four of the Act of 1950, shall apply to the determination for the purposes of this Act of any question whether any dwelling will be unfit for human habitation as they apply to the determination of such questions for the purposes of those Acts respectively.

(3) For the purposes of this Act, the annual loan charges referable to any amount shall be the annual sum that, in the opinion of the Minister, would fall to be provided by a local authority for the payment of interest on, and the repayment of, a loan of that amount repayable over a period of twenty years.

(4) Any reference in this Act to any other enactment is a reference thereto as amended by any subsequent enactment including, except where the context otherwise requires, this Act.