Section 70.
1(1)No payment shall be made under any of the enactments described in Schedule 1 to this Act for the year 1972-73 or any subsequent year.
(2)Subject to section 59 of this Act and without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraph (1) above, no payment shall be made by a local authority for the year 1972-73 or any subsequent year in pursuance of any undertaking or agreement made under or by reference to any of the enactments described in Parts IV and VI of the said Schedule 1 (which includes—
(a)provisions authorising a local authority to enter into undertakings to make payments to other persons, and authorising payments out of money provided by Parliament to local authorities entering into such undertakings, and
(b)provisions requiring or authorising a local authority, on receipt of any sum, to pay to another person an amount not less than that sum).
2(1)This paragraph has effect where information given to the Secretary of State on an application duly made for a payment for the year 1971-72 or any earlier year under any enactment described in Schedule 1 to this Act includes any particulars which are, and are stated to be, based on an estimate.
(2)Subject to the following provisions of this Schedule, if it appears to the Secretary of State—
(a)that the estimate is reasonable, and
(b)that, assuming the estimate were correct, the information and other particulars given on the application are sufficient to enable him to determine the amount of the payment,
he may accept the estimate and make a payment accordingly.
(3)Any payment made in pursuance of this paragraph so far as it is based on an estimate of the cost of land may be adjusted when the final cost of the land is ascertained.
(4)Where a payment is made in pursuance of this paragraph neither the housing authority nor the housing association receiving the payment nor, where the payment is made under a provision requiring a local authority to pay over to a development corporation or a housing association an amount not less than that received, the development corporation or housing association, shall be entitled to question the amount of the payment on a ground which means that the estimate was incorrect.
(5)Where the Secretary of State is not satisfied that the estimate is reasonable, he may, if he thinks fit, accept the application and make a payment of such amount as appears to him reasonable.
3The right to receive any payment from the Secretary of State under any of the enactments described in Schedule 1 to this Act shall be extinguished unless an application has been duly made for the payment before 1st September 1972, or such later date as he may in exceptional circumstances allow, and unless the Secretary of State is satisfied that the information and other particulars given (before that date) on the application—
(a)are sufficient to enable him to determine the amount of the payment, or
(b)are such as to enable him to make a payment based on an estimate in pursuance of paragraph 2 of this Schedule.
4For the purpose of calculating the amount of exchequer contribution payable for the year 1971-72 under subsection (1) of section 2 of the Act of 1968, "financial year" in subsections (2) and (3) of that section shall have the same meaning as " year " in this Act; and accordingly subsection (6) of that section shall not apply for that purpose.
5(1)The Secretary of State may determine the total amount payable to a housing authority or to any housing association under the enactments described in Schedule 1 to this Act for any period ending not later than the end of the year 1971-72, and in determining that total amount he may take into account any over-payment made or any amount already paid to the authority or association not under statute.
(2)The Secretary of State may direct that a local authority shall, in consequence of a determination made by him under sub-paragraph (1) above, make such adjustment in the housing revenue account as he thinks fit.
(3)The Secretary of State shall pay to the housing authority or the housing association the total amount determined by him under sub-paragraph (1) above, and he may recover from the housing authority or the association any overpayment made by him under the said enactments for any period ending not later than the end of the year 1971-72.
6(1)Any sum paid, before the coming into force of this Act, by the Secretary of State for the year 1972-73 under any enactment described in Parts I, II and III of Schedule 1 to this Act shall be brought into account as follows.
(2)A sum so paid shall be treated as paid on account of any sums payable to the housing authority under Part I of this Act for the year 1972-73, and if the total of sums so paid exceeds the total of the sums payable under Part I of this Act for the year 1972-73, the excess shall be recoverable by the Secretary of State from the housing authority.
(3)If it appears to the Secretary of State at any time that, when the sums payable under Part I of this Act for the year 1972-73 are finally ascertained, any amount will be recoverable by him under sub-paragraph (2) above, he may require the housing authority to pay that amount to him forthwith, but without prejudice to any further adjustment, either way, when those sums are finally ascertained.
7(1)No payments shall be made under section 22(1)(b) of the Act of 1968 for the year 1972-73 or any subsequent year.
(2)Section 22(3) of the Act of 1968 shall cease to have effect, except where the buildings were demolished before the coming into force of this Act.
8(1)Payments under subsection (2) of section 92 of the [1964 c. 56.] Housing Act 1964 shall not be made for the year 1972-73 or any subsequent year.
(2)Sub-paragraph (3) below relates to a house—
(a)in respect of which a payment is made for the year 1971-72 under subsection (2) of the said section 92, or
(b)to which the said section 92 applies and which is vacated in the year 1971-72 and in respect of which, apart from the provisions of sub-paragraph (1) above, a payment would be made under the said subsection (2).
(3)The Secretary of State may pay to the local authority in respect of any house referred to in sub-paragraph (2) above a sum of such amount as, in his opinion, is appropriate having regard to the residuary contribution years within "the meaning of subsection (8)(d) of the said section 92 in relation to that house:
Provided that any sum paid under this sub-paragraph shall be applied by the local authority to extinguish the outstanding debt in respect of any such house 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 housing revenue account under paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 to this Act or to such other purpose as may be approved by the Secretary of State.
(4)Section 93 of the [1964 c. 56.] Housing Act 1964 shall cease to have effect, except where the request by the local authority for the demolition of the house was duly made before the date of the coming into force of this Act, and the local authority, before that date, satisfied the Secretary of State that they had taken the appropriate steps, including the disconnection of services, to enable the demolition to be carried out safely and efficiently, or the house is such a house as is referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) above.
(5)Notwithstanding sub-paragraph (4) above, subsection (2) of the said section 93 shall not have effect where—
(a)the request by the local authority for the demolition of the house was duly made before the date of the coming into force of this Act, and the local authority, before that date, satisfied the Secretary of State as described in sub-paragraph (4) above, or
(b)the house was demolished before the coming into force of this Act,
and the house would be such a house as is referred to in sub-paragraph (2)(b) above except that it is vacated in the year 1972-73.
9The Housing (Rural Workers) Acts 1926 to 1942, except in relation to any loan made before the coming into force of this Act under section 2 of the Housing (Rural Workers) Act 1926 (and excepting any enactment so far as it relates to the rate of interest payable on such a loan), and except in relation to any contribution payable before the corning into force of this Act under section 4 of that Act, shall cease to have effect.
10(1)The [1944 c. 36.] Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944, and any agreement under section 1 of that Act, shall cease to have effect.
(2)So far as any agreement under the said section 1 provides for a payment by a local authority to the Secretary of State, or by the Secretary of State to a local authority, sub-paragraph (1) above shall have effect as respects payments to be made for the year 1972-73 and subsequent years.
(3)All rights of property and other rights of the Secretary of State as respects any structure being used by a local authority in pursuance of an agreement under the said section 1 when this Act comes into force, and any obligation of the Secretary of State to any person other than the local authority as respects the removal or demolition of the structure, shall be transferred to the local authority.
(4)Subject to sub-paragraph (3) above, all obligations of the Secretary of State as respects any such structure shall be terminated.
(5)The provisions of the Act of 1966 relating to houses provided by a local authority under Part VII of that Act shall continue to have effect in relation to any such structure, and housing accommodation provided in any such structure shall be deemed to have been provided under the said Part VII:
Provided that any such structure, and any land on which it is situated, which immediately before the coming into force of this Act was deemed to be land acquired for the purposes of the said Part VII, may be appropriated, or disposed of, by the local authority in the same way as any other land provided under the said Part VII.
(6)The preceding provisions of this paragraph shall not affect any obligation of a local authority to any other person as respects the removal or demolition of any structure.
(7)Where, under section 2 of the Act of 1944, the local authority have, before the date when this Act comes into force, duly requested the Secretary of State to cause the structure to be taken down and removed, and the local authority have, before that date, satisfied the Secretary of State that they have taken the appropriate steps, including the disconnection of services, to enable the demolition to be carried out safely and efficiently, the Secretary of State shall, notwithstanding the preceding provisions of this paragraph, comply with the request and subsections (2) and (3) of the said section 2 shall apply as respects structures, fittings and materials removed in compliance with the request.
(8)References in this paragraph to any structure include references to any fittings forming part of the structure.
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
12(1)A local authority shall not approve an application for assistance under section 44 of the Act of 1968 on or after the coming into force of this Act.
(2)An exchequer contribution under subsection (1) of section 48 of the Act of 1968 shall not be made for the year 1972-73 or any subsequent year.
(3)Where, apart from sub-paragraph (2) above, an exchequer contribution would be made under subsection (1) of the said section 48 towards the expense incurred by a local authority in giving assistance under the said section 44 in respect of the provision of a house, 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 number of years outstanding for which, apart from the said sub-paragraph, the exchequer contribution would be payable by virtue of subsection (2) of the said section 48.
(4)Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) above apply, with any necessary modifications, to an exchequer contribution under section 8 of the [1938 c. 38.] Housing (Agricultural Population) (Scotland) Act 1938, section 104 of the [1950 c. 34.] Housing (Scotland) Act 1950 or section 4 of the [1952 c. 63.] Housing (Scotland) Act 1952, as they apply to an exchequer contribution under the said section 48.
13Any dispute between two or more housing authorities, or between any housing authority and any other person, as to a claim for a payment from a housing authority under any of the enactments described in Schedule 1 to this Act or this Schedule, shall be referred to and determined by the Secretary of State.
14Every housing authority and housing association shall supply the Secretary of State with such information as he may specify, either generally or in any particular case, for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of State to make any determination or calculation as respects payments for the year 1971-72, or any earlier year under the enactments described in Schedule 1 to this Act or this Schedule, or any determination or calculation related to the termination of the housing contribution system superseded by this Act.
15Any payments to be made by the Secretary of State under this Schedule shall be defrayed out of money paid by Parliament,