Housing Act 1955

State houses

9: Power to erect and repair dwellings

You could also call this:

"The government can build, fix, and improve homes on State housing land."

The Minister can use money from Parliament to build new homes on State housing land. You can think of State housing land as areas where the government builds homes for people to live in. The Minister can also demolish or rebuild homes on this land. The Minister or Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities can make changes to homes on State housing land. This includes fixing, enlarging, or improving homes. They can do this to make sure the homes are nice places to live. The Minister gets this power from the Housing Act 1955 and the Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities Act 2019, which you can read more about on the https://legislation.govt.nz/act/public/1986/0120/latest/link.aspx?id=LMS191136. This means they can take care of homes on State housing land. They want to make sure people have good homes to live in.

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8: Development of State housing land, or

"Using government money to improve State housing land"

10: Access ways and service lanes, or

"Rules about paths and lanes for State houses"

Part 1State houses

9Power to erect and repair dwellings

The Minister, from time to time out of money appropriated by Parliament for the purpose, may cause dwellings and ancillary commercial buildings to be erected for State housing purposes on any State housing land, and may cause any dwelling or building on any such land to be demolished or rebuilt.
The Minister or Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities may from time to time alter, enlarge, repair, or otherwise improve any dwelling or building on any State housing land.

Compare

1919 No 32 s 11
1943 No 3 s 2(4)

Notes

Section 9(2): amended, on 1 October 2019, by section 33 of the Kāinga Ora–Homes and Communities Act 2019 (2019 No 50).