This legislation has been repealed.
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 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. 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 Legislative history The Parliament of South Australia enacts as follows: