PART XIIS HOUSE LOANS AND OTHER FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE

House loans: special casesS

218 Duty of local authority to offer loans to meet expenses of repairs.S

(1)Where the person having control of a house is willing to carry out the works necessary to rectify the defects specified in the notice under section 108(2), he may, not later than 21 days from the date of service of the said notice, or from the date of determination of any appeal, apply to the local authority for a loan.

(2)Subsections (2) to (8) of section 217 shall apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section, but as if in subsection (5)(b) for the words from “improvement” to the end there were substituted the words “the works necessary to rectify the defects specified in the repair notice have been executed.”.