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Clearance area

Clearance area. Under the Housing Acts, 1930-35, substantially reproduced by the Housing Act,1936, the local authority may (see ss. 25 et seq., 1936 Act) declare any area in their district to be a clearance area where they are satisfied that the houses there are by reason of disrepair or sanitary defects or bad arrangement either of the houses or streets dangerous to the health of the inhabitants in the area, and after marking off on a map of the area and excluding from the area any building which is not unfit for human habitation or dangerous and injurious to health, they may, by a clearance order obtained from the Minister of Health, see Errington v. Minister of Health, 1935 (1) KB 249, and subject to formalities under ss. 51-53 of the H. Act, 1936, and if the owner has not obtained a certificate of re-conditioning fitness, order the demolition of the buildings in the area or purchase the land compulsorily or by agreement, or themselves secure the demolition of the buildings. A limit...


Improvement area

Improvement area. Local authorities who have passed a resolution under the provisions of the (English) Housing Act, 1930, s. 7, declaring an area (under conditions similar to those indicated in regard to clearance areas) to be an improvement area, may call upon owners to demolish houses which are unfit for habitation or else to execute all necessary works by notice under ss. 9(1) and 19 of the (English) Housing Act, 1936, and may also purchase land for opening out the area by agreement or compulsorily; see ss. 38 and 39 of the 1936 Act.Before taking action under the resolution the local authority must give an undertaking to find suitable accommodation for persons who may be displaced from working-class houses. Compensation to owners upon expropriation is provided for by ss. 40 and 42 and the 4th Schedule owners may appeal to the County Court against demolition orders under s. 15. The general procedure is regulated by s. 38 and the 1st Schd. See (English) Housing Act, 1936; IMPROVEMENTO...


Housing of the working classes

Housing of the working classes. The Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5, and 1 Edw. 8, c. 51), replaces with amendments the Housing Acts, 1925, 1930 and 1935, and consolidates the general law on the subject with some exceptions, chiefly relating to agricultural populations and needs, which are also provided for in unrepeated portions of the Acts of 1930 and 1935. Very wide powers are conferred on local authorities over the ownership of land and housing properties, and populations within their districts, enabling those authorities to make bye-laws for houses occupied or adaptable for the working classes; to effect the clearance, demolition, rebuilding, redevelopment or improvement of houses either singly or in whole areas and other-wise regulating sites or houses; to prevent over-crowding, and generally making it incumbent on these authorities to review and provide for the housing conditions of the working classes, and in addition giving powers of compulsory expropria-tion of private owners fr...


Re-development areas

Re-development areas. By ss. 34 et seq. of the (English) Housing Act, 1936, a local authority may acquire an area of land by agreement or compulsorily for houses for the working classes if after an inspection for the purposes of detecting overcrowding under s. 1 of the Act or otherwise the authority is satisfied that the area contains fifty or more working class houses, of which at least one-third are overcrowded or unfit for human habitation, and that the industrial and social conditions of the district are such that the area should be used for working-class houses and that the area should be re-developed as a whole for their accommodation. The authority must in those conditions prepare a re-development plan by reference to a map to be submitted to the Minister of Health for approval, and the Minister must hold a public inquiry if there is any objection, before giving or withholding or modifying the plan; in any other case approval may be given, qualified or withheld at the Minister''...


Clearance, special VFR

Clearance, special VFR, means a clearance given by the appropriate air traffic control unit to an aircraft for flight with in airspace notified for the purpose of any paragraph of r. 36 if the aircraft remains clear of cloud, within sight of the surface and is flown in accordance with any special instructions given by that unit, r. 36(2) of Air Regulation, 1990 (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1406, p. 691....


Clearance

The act of clearing as to make a thorough clearance...


Clearance

Clearance, a certificate that a ship has been examined and cleared at the Custom House. See s. 101 and other ss. of the Customs Consolidation Act, 1876 (39 & 40 Vict. c. 36); Chitty's Statutes, tit. 'Customs.'...


Clearance, air traffic control

Clearance, air traffic control, means authorisation by an air traffic control unit for an aircraft to proceed under conditions specified by that unit; Rules of the Air Regulation 1990, SI 1990/2241, Sch. 1(1) (UK); Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 2, para 1403, p. 689....


Area

Area [Lat., a threshing-floor], (1) an enclosed yard or open place connected with a house; (2) a district for particular purposes, as a school board area, a parliamentary electoral area, a local government district (see Part viii of the Public Health Act, 1875), a Poor Law Union of parishes, as to which, see UNION; (3) Metaphor, the region of discussion; (4) In the London Building Act, 1930, s. 5, contains this definition: 'area' in relation to a building means the superficies of a horizontal section thereof made at the point of its greatest surface inclusive of the external walls and of such portions of the party walls as belong to the building.'Area' means the area (including all the buildings, structures or other properties comprises therein) specified in the Schedule. [Acquisition of Certain Area at Ayodhya, (33 of 1993), s. 2(a)]An area simpliciter is certainly not a route. Its potentiality to become a route would not make it a route. A route is an area plus something more, C.P. S...


Local area

Local area, 'Local area', in relation to any local cadre, means the local area specified in para 6 for direct recruitment to posts in such local cadre, and includes, in respect of posts belonging to the category of Civil Assistant Surgeons, the local area specified in sub-para (5) of paragraph 8 of this Order', S. Prakasha Rao v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, AIR 1990 SC 997: (1990) 2 SCC 259 (261). [A.P. Employment (Organisation of Local Cadre and Regulation of Direct Recruitment) Order, 1975]It means any area, whether urban or rural, declared by the Central Government or the State Government by notification in the Official Gazette, to be a local area for the purposes of this Act. [Prevention of Food Adulteration Act, 1954 (37 of 1954), s. 2 (vii)]The words 'local area' in Entry 52 of the Constitution, (when the area is a part of the State imposing the law) in an area administered by a local body like a municipality, a district board, a local board, a union board, a Panchayat or t...


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