HC Deb 19 July 1923 vol 166 cc2665-6

(4) Where within fifteen months before the passing of this Act a local authority have submitted to the Minister proposals for assisting persons or bodies of persons undertaking to construct houses, or for the provision of houses by the local authority themselves, or where after the twenty-fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-three, and before the passing of this Act, a society, body of trustees or company to which Section three of this Act applies has submitted proposals for the provision of houses, and such proposals have been approved by the Minister otherwise than for the purposes of Section seven of the Housing, Town Planning, etc., Act, 1919, contributions may be made of the like amount as if the assistance had been given or the houses provided after the passing of this Act, and notwithstanding that the houses do not comply in every respect with the conditions imposed by or under this Section.

Lords Amendment:

In Sub-section (4), after the word "seven" ["purposes of Section seven"], insert "or Section nineteen".

Agreed to.