Housing Act 1935
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Long titleAn Act to make further and better provision for the abatement and prevention of overcrowding, the re-development of urban areas in connection with the provision of housing accommodation therein, and the reconditioning of buildings, to make provision for the establishment of a housing advisory committee and of commissions for the management of local authorities' houses, to amend the enactments relating to the housing operations of public utility societies and other bodies, to provide for the consolidation of housing accounts, to amend the enactments relating to housing; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid.
Citation25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 40
Territorial extentEngland and Wales[b]
Royal assent2 August 1935
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| Long title | An Act to make further and better provision for the abatement and prevention of overcrowding, the re-development of urban areas in connection with the provision of housing accommodation therein, and the reconditioning of buildings, to make provision for the establishment of a housing advisory committee and of commissions for the management of local authorities' houses, to amend the enactments relating to the housing operations of public utility societies and other bodies, to provide for the consolidation of housing accounts, to amend the enactments relating to housing; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid. |
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| Citation | 25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 40 |
| Territorial extent | England and Wales[b] |
| Dates | |
| Royal assent | 2 August 1935 |
| Commencement | 2 August 1935[c] |
| Repealed | 1 April 1986 |
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| Amended by | |
| Repealed by | Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985 |
Status: Repealed | |
| Text of statute as originally enacted | |
The Housing Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 40) was an act of the Parliament in the United Kingdom. It required every local authority to submit a programme of building and demolition aimed at eliminating slums from their area. [1]
The whole act, except subsection (6) of section 27, sections 37–39, subsection 62(2), and sections 92 and 100, were repealed by section 190 of, and the twelfth schedule to, Housing Act 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8. c. 51), which came into force on 1 January 1937.[2]
The whole act was repealed by section 3(1) of, and part I of the schedule 1 to, the Housing (Consequential Provisions) Act 1985, which came into force on 1 April 1986.[3]
