South Australia
Housing Improvement Act 1940
An Act to provide for the improvement of sub-standard housing conditions, to provide for housing of persons of limited means, to regulate the rentals of sub-standard dwellinghouses in the metropolitan area and in certain other parts of the State, and for other purposes.
Contents
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
41Cancellation of existing grant etc when land is under Real Property Act
42 Construction of this Part
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 of Part
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…