National Housing (Amendment) Act 1981

This Act may be cited as the National Housing

(Amendment) Act, No. 49 of 1981.

Section 33 of the National Housing Act (hereinafter referred to as the “ principal enactment ”) is hereby amend-ed by the repeal of subsection (1) of that section and by the ubstitution therefor of the following subsection :—

In any case where the occupier of any house to which this Part applies fails to comply with the provisions of subsection (1) of section 32, it shall be lawtul for the landlord to file, in the District Court of the district in which the house is Situated, an appli-cation praying for the recovery of possession of the house, and for the ejectment from tae land or premises on which the house is situated of the occupier, his dependants and every other person occupying such land or premises or portion thereof. Every such application shall be supported by an affidavit sett.:ng forth the tim -

Section 36 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the follov'ng section substituted therefor i—

“ Appeals

36. Any person who is dissatisfied with any final judgment, or any order having the effect of a final judgment, pronounced or made by the District Court under this Part may, before the expiry of a period of fourteen days

(exclusive of Sundays and public holidays) from the date of such judgment or order, appeal to the Court of

Appeal against such judgment or order

; and the provisions of any other written law re-lating to appeals to the Court of Appeal from

" judgments or orders of District Courts shall apply in the case of any appeal preferred under the preceding provisions of this section ”

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National Housing (Amendment)

Act, No. 49 of 1981

The amendments made to the principal enactment by sections 2 and 3 of this Act shall be deemed to have come into force on July 2, 1979,

Validity of applications &c, before Magistrate’s Court hetween July 2, 1979, and date of commence-ment of this Axet,

No application made to, or final judgment, or erder having the effect of a final judgment, pronounced or made by, a Magistrate’s Court under Part V of the principal enactment during the period commencing on July 2, 1979, and ending on the day immediately preceding the date of commencement of this Act, shall be deemed to be, or to have been, invalid by reason only of the fact that such application was made to, or final judgment, or order having the effect of a final judgment, was pronounced or made by, a Magistrate’s Court.

With effect from the date of commencement of this

Every final judgment, or order having the effect of a final judgment, pronounced or made by a Magistrate’s Court under Part V of the principal enactment during the period commencing on July 2, 1979, and ending on the day imraediately preceding the date of commencement of this