Housing (Amendment No. 7) (Jersey) Law 1993

Jersey Law 10/1993 HOUSING (AMENDMENT No. 7) (JERSEY) LAW 1993 ____________ A LAW to amend the Housing (Jersey) Laws 1949 to 1988 to enable the control of occupation of dwellings on land acquired by, or on subrogation from, a tenant après dégrèvement and land acquired by a company by inheritance, sanctioned by Order of Her Majesty in Council of the 10th day of MARCH 1993 ____________ (Registered on the 7th day of May 1993) ____________ STATES OF JERSEY ____________ The 15th day of December 1992 ____________ T HE STATES , subject to the sanction of Her Most Excellent Majesty in Council, have adopted the following Law – ARTICLE 1 In the long title to the Housing (Jersey) Laws 1949 to 1988, 1 (hereinafter referred to as “the principal Law”), after the word “control” there shall be inserted the words “acquisitions and”. ARTICLE 2 After Part II of the principal Law 2 there shall be inserted the following Part – “ PART IIA LAND ACQUIRED AFTER DEGREVEMENT ETC ARTICLE 4A Condition on occupation of dwellings on land acquired after a dégrèvement or by a company by inheritance. Where, after the commencement of the Housing (Amendment No. 7) (Jersey) Law 1992, any land is acquired – (a) as a result of a dégrèvement ; (b) by subrogation from a tenant après dégrèvement ; or (c) by a body corporate, by inheritance, the land shall be deemed to have been acquired subject to the condition that any unit of dwelling accommodation on the land at the time of its acquisition, or which is created on the land thereafter, shall not, without the consent of the Committee be occupied other than by a person who falls within any class specified by the States in Regulations made under Article 15 of this Law, being a class to which this condition is specifically stated to refer by those Regulations. ARTICLE 4B Duration This Part of this Law shall remain in force for so long as Part III of this Law remains in force.”. ARTICLE 3 In Article 14 of the principal Law 3 – (a) in paragraph (1), before the words “this Part” there shall be inserted the words “Part IIA or” in – ( i ) sub-paragraph (a), in both places where they occur, (ii) sub-paragraph (b), (iii) sub-paragraph (c), and (iv) sub-paragraph (d), in both places where they occur; and (b) after paragraph (1) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs – “(1A) Where an offence against this Part of this Law has been committed by a body corporate and it is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager, secretary or similar officer of that body corporate or any person purporting to act in any such capacity, he, as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of the offence and liable to be proceeded against accordingly. (1B) Where the affairs of a body corporate are managed by its members paragraph (1A) of this Article shall apply in relation to the acts and defaults of a member in connexion with his functions of management as if he were a director of the body corporate.”. ARTICLE 4 In Article 15 of the principal Law 4 after the words “provisions of” there shall be inserted the words “Part IIA and”. ARTICLE 5 The proviso to Article 16 of the principal Law 5 shall be deleted. ARTICLE 6 (1) This Law may be cited as the Housing (Amendment No. 7) (Jersey) Law 1993 and this Law, the Housing (Amendment No. 6) (Jersey) Law 1991 and the principal Law may be cited together as the Housing (Jersey) Laws 1949 to 1993. (2) This Law shall come into force on such day as the States may by Act appoint. C.M. NEWCOMBE Deputy Greffier of the States. 1 Tome VII, page 535, Volume 1988–1989, page 295, and Volume 1990–1991, pages 545, 546 and 1113. 2 Tome VII, page 537. 3 Tome VII, page 542. 4 Tome VII, page 543. 5 Tome VII, page 543.