Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972

Exchequer contributions for unfit houses retained by local authorities

11 (1) Payments under section 19 of the Act of 1968—

(a) shall not be made for the year 1972-73 or any subsequent year, and

(b) shall only be made (and only for the year 1971-72 and earlier years) as regards a house approved by the Secretary of State for the purposes of the said section 19 before the end of the year 1971-72.

(2) Where payments under the said section 19 as regards a house approved before the end of the year 1971-72 would, apart from this paragraph, fall to be paid for the year 1972-73, or for that and later years, the Secretary of State shall, subject to subsection (3) below, pay to the local authority a sum, calculated by such method as he may determine, equivalent to the value of those payments, as at the end of the year 1971-72.

(3) In the case of payments under subsection (2)(a) of the said section 19 (payments for years during which the house is used for approved housing purposes), it shall be assumed for the purposes of sub-paragraph (2) above—

(a) that no payment would, apart from this paragraph, fall to be paid under the said subsection (2)(a) for the year 1972-73 or any later year if the first such payment were for the year 1961-62 or any earlier year, and

(b) if the first such payment were for the year 1962-63 that no such payment would be made for the year 1972-73 or any later year, and correspondingly that if the first such payment were for a year after 1962-63, that no such payment would be made for any year beginning more than ten years after the beginning of the year for which the first such payment was made,

(c) that any house is used in the year 1972-73, and later years, for the said approved housing purposes.

(4) Where a local authority have taken possession of a house before the end of the year 1971-72, and—

(a) the house has not been approved for the purposes) of the said section 19, but

(b) apart from the provisions of this paragraph, it would have been eligible for approval under that section, or would have been so eligible if the local authority had purchased it,

the Secretary of State may pay to the local authority a sum of such amount as, in his opinion, is appropriate having regard to the period for which the house is likely to be used for housing purposes, and to the date when the local authority might be expected to incur expenditure on purchasing the house.

(5) Any capital sum paid under sub-paragraph (2) or (4) above shall be applied by the local authority to reduce the capital debt relating to any house referred to in those sub-paragraphs, and, in so far as not so required, to reduce any debt in respect of which loan charges are required to be debited to the slum clearance revenue account under paragraph 3 of Schedule 5 to this Act