DISTRIBUTED BY VERITAS
VERITAS MAKES EVERY EFFORT TO ENSURE THE PROVISION OF RELIABLE INFORMATION,
BUT CANNOT TAKE LEGAL RESPONSIBILITY FOR INFORMATION SUPPLIED.
CHAPTER 29:08
HOUSING STANDARDS CONTROL ACT (as amended at 1st August 2005)
Acts 29/1972, 57/1972 (s. 28), 39/1973 (s. 46), 22/1976 (s. 87), 48/1976 (s. 82), 3/1979 (ss. 115 120), 15/1981 (s. 66), 8/1988 (s. 164), 9/1997 (s. 10), 22/2001 (s. 4); R.G.N. 918/1973.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
PART I
PRELIMINARY
Section
1.
Short title.
2.
Interpretation.
3.
Application of Act.
PART II
HOUSING COURTS
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Housing courts.
Assessors.
Housing courts to be courts of record.
Proceedings to be in public.
Representation.
Adjournments.
Summoning of witnesses and privileges thereof.
Witnesses failing to attend or refusing to be sworn or to give evidence.
Witness giving false evidence.
Contempt of housing court.
Costs.
Appeal from decision of housing court.
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PART III
REPAIR, DEMOLITION AND CLOSURE ORDERS
Authority may apply for repair, demolition or closure order.
Issue of summons.
Contents of summons.
Service of summons.
Delivery of grounds of opposition.
Inquiry to be held into application.
Making of order.
When building deemed to be of unsatisfactory standard.
Contents of repair order.
Contents of demolition order.
Contents of closure order.
Criteria in making of order.
Order binding on successors in title.
Effect of order stipulating vacation.
Persons on whom copy of order shall be served.
Certificate of compliance with order.
Variation, revocation or replacement of order.
Failure to comply with order an offence.
Authority may carry out order and recover cost thereof.
Rent not payable where building vacated.
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PART IV
ABATEMENT OF OVERCROWDING
Authority may apply for abatement order.
Issue of abatement summons.
Contents of abatement summons.
Service of abatement summons.