South Australian Consolidated Acts

HOUSING IMPROVEMENT ACT 1940

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1--Preliminary

   1.      Short title
   4.      Interpretation

   PART 2--Administration and financial provisions

   5.      Administration of Act
   6.      Delegation
   11B.    Report to Minister
   11C.    Duty to furnish papers etc
   12.     Accounts
   13.     Audit
   14.     Triennial investigation
   15.     Annual report
   16.     General powers of the housing authority
   16A.    Additional powers of housing authority
   16B.    Power to buy land
   17.     Exemption of gifts from succession duty
   18.     Housing Improvement Fund
   19.     Power of Treasurer to make loans to housing authority
   20.     Power of bodies corporate to make grants or loans for housing purposes
   21.     Power of Treasurer to borrow
   21A.    Power of Treasurer to lend £100 000
   22.     Power of housing authority to carry out conditions of gift

   PART 3--Improvement of sub-standard housing conditions

   23.     Power to declare houses unfit for habitation
   24.     Appeal
   25.     Power of housing authority
   27.     Advances to owners
   28.     Advance to be a charge on land
   29.     Power to take further security
   30.     Recovery of moneys owing by owner by attachment of rent payable by occupier
   31.     Provision as to owners who are trustees
   32.     Power to acquire lands

   PART 4--Clearance of areas

   33.     Power to declare clearance area
   34.     Acquisition of land in clearance area
   35.     Powers of housing authority as to demolition
   36.     Powers of housing authority as to clearance area
   37.     Streets opened by housing authority
   38.     Notice to vacate buildings in reclamation area
   39.     Closing streets and extinguishing easements and covenants
   40.     Effect of closing street
   41.     Cancellation of existing grant etc when land is under Real Property Act
   42.     Construction of thisPART

   PART 5--Provision of housing for persons of limited means

   43.     Construction of houses
   44.     Letting of houses
   44A.    Letting of houses to widows of members of the armed forces
   45.     Power to sell houses
   46.     Rentals
   47.     Regulations as to houses

   PART 6--Assistance to housing corporations

   48.     Power to transfer or lease land to body corporate

   PART 7--Control of rentals of sub-standard houses

   49.     Application ofPART
   50.     Interpretation
   51.     Classification of houses
   52.     Application of rent control to houses
   53.     Appeal from declaration of housing authority
   54.     Classification and fixing of maximum rentals of sub-standard houses
   55.     Alteration of rent or classification
   56.     Rentals payable for classified house
   56A.    Penalty for demanding rent in excess of that fixed
   56B.    Record of rents
   56C.    Duty to give receipt for rent
   56D.    Interference with use or enjoyment of premises
   57.     Subletting of classified house
   58.     Rentals of furnished houses
   58A.    Notice of rent etc to be displayed in certain cases
   59.     Penalty for making sale of furniture a condition of letting
   60.     Provision of certain information by housing authority
   60A.    Notices to quit void in certain cases
   61.     Orders for possession
   61A.    Duty of vendor to disclose to purchaser if house substandard
   61B.    Offence in connection with sale of substandard house

   PART 8--Miscellaneous

   63.     Acquisition of land for purposes of Act
   64.     Basis of compensation
   65.     Allowance to certain displaced occupiers
   66.     Co-operation with departments and councils
   67.     Powers of entry and inspection
   68.     Obstruction etc of officers etc
   69.     Offences by occupiers and others
   70.     Power to occupier or registered mortgagee to do matters ordered to be done by owner
   70A.    House declared or which may be declared, substandard--Owner may not require occupier to do certain works etc
   71.     Dispossession of occupiers failing to vacate premises when required to do so
   72.     Procedure at hearing and execution of warrant
   73.     General penalty
   74.     Service of notices and orders etc
   75.     Proof of notices, orders or documents
   76.     Continued operation of orders and notices
   77.     References to "owner" or "occupier"
   78.     Appearance of housing authority in legal proceedings
   79.     Protection of housing authority and members and officers from personal liability
   80.     Notice of action
   81.     Power to housing authority to authorise proceedings
   82.     Simplification of proof in certain cases
   83.     Documents signed by chairman, deputy chairman, or secretary to be evidence
   84.     Proof of ownership
   84A.    Arrangements to evade Act
   85.     Regulations as to standard of houses
   86.     General power to make regulations
   87.     Provision as to regulations
   89.      Proceedings
   89A.    Limitation of time for bringing proceedings
   90.     Construction of Act
           SCHEDULE 1--Form of complaint against occupier failing to vacate
           SCHEDULE 2--Form of summons to occupier failing to vacate
           SCHEDULE 3--Form of warrant to dispossess unauthorised occupier
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