Army Act 1955 (repealed)

158 Accommodation to be provided and payment therefor.F2 U.K.

(1) Where persons are billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition the occupier of the premises on whichthey are billeted shall furnish such accommodation (including meals) as the officer or soldier demandingthe billets may require, not exceeding such accommodation as may be prescribed by regulations of [F1 the Defence Council] made with the consent of the Treasury.

(2) Where vehicles are billeted as aforesaid, the occupier of the premises shall furnish standing room forthe vehicles.

(3) Where persons or vehicles have been billeted in pursuance of a billeting requisition they may continueto be billeted, so long as section one hundred and fifty-four of this Act continues in operation, for suchperiod as may be required, and the allotment of billets among the persons or vehicles in question may bevaried from time to time.

(4) The occupier on whose premises any person or vehicle is billeted as aforesaid shall be entitled toreceive for the billeting such payment as may be prescribed by regulations of [F1 the Defence Council] made with the consent of the Treasury:

Provided that no payment shall be required in respect of vehicles billeted otherwise than in abuilding unless the land on which they are billeted—

(a) has its surface made up for the passage or parking of vehicles, and

(b) is not land where vehicles are normally allowed to stand free of charge irrespective of the person bywhom they are owned or driven.

(5) Subject to the provisions of the next following subsection payment for billeting—

(a) shall be made before the persons billeted finally leave, or the vehicles are finally removed from, thepremises where they are billeted; and

(b) where the billeting continues for more than seven days, shall be made at least once in every seven days.

(6) If for any reason payment for billeting cannot be made, or fully made, as required by paragraph (a) ofthe last foregoing subsection, there shall be made up with the occupier an account, in such form as may beprescribed by [F1 the Defence Council], of the amount due to him; and—

(a) on presentation of the account the local authority for the area in which the premises are situated shallpay to the occupier the amount stated in the account to be due,

(b) any sums paid by a local authority under the last foregoing paragraph shall be recoverable by them from [F1 the Defence Council].

(7) In relation to premises of which there is no occupier the foregoing provisions of this section shallapply as if the person entitled to possession thereof were the occupier thereof.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by S.I. 1964/488, Sch. 1 Pt. I

Textual Amendments applied to the whole legislation

F2 Act: the provisions of the 1955 Acts providing for findings of courts-martial to be subject to confirmation and to revision at the direction of the confirming officer cease to have effect (1.4.1997 subject to art. 3 of the commencing S.I.) by virtue of 1996 c. 46, s. 15; S.I. 1997/304, arts. 2, 3, Sch. 2