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HOUSING ON FARMS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1972 - SECT 6

Statutory conditions under Part II.

6. Where a grant is paid to an applicant by the Ministry under this Part in
respect of the provision of an approved worker's house on any farm, the
following conditions (in this Act referred to as "the Part II conditions")
shall, until the expiration of the period of five years next after the date of
the payment of the grant (in this section referred to as "the relevant
period"), apply in relation to such house and such farm

(a)the house shall as soon as practicable be let to an approved worker
employed in the service of the applicant for the purpose of carrying out on
the farm agricultural operations of the nature specified in the certificate
given by the Ministry of Agriculture in respect of the house under
section 4(1);

(b)the house, or any share therein or part thereof, shall not, without the
written consent of the Ministry, be transferred, assigned, let or sub-let
otherwise than for occupation by an approved worker, and shall not be occupied
by any person other than an approved worker and his family;

(c)the house shall not be enlarged, altered or structurally modified so that
the superficial area thereof exceeds one thousand and fifty square feet, and
shall not be amalgamated with any other house or houses so that such houses
together form a single house;

(d)an officer or servant of the Ministry duly authorised by it in writing in
that behalf may, where the Ministry has reasonable cause to believe that
the Part II conditions are not being performed and observed, at all reasonable
times enter the house for the purpose of ascertaining whether those conditions
are being duly performed and observed.

Part III (ss.79) rep. by 1976 NI 25 art.80(4) sch.6 Pt.II

Expenses.



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