Remediation of Dwellings Damaged by the Use of Defective Concrete Blocks (Amendment) Act 2025

Amendment of section 34 of Principal Act

27. Section 34 of the Principal Act is amended—

(a) by the substitution of the following subsection for subsection (2):

“(2) A charging order shall be deemed to be a legal mortgage under Part 10 of the Land and Conveyancing Law Reform Act 2009 and—

(a) the first charge shall be deemed to have been executed on the later of—

(i) the date of the final part payment of a remediation option grant, or the payment of the whole of the remediation option grant, to the relevant owner under section 18,

(ii) the date of the final part payment of an increased grant, or the payment of the whole of the increased grant, to the relevant owner under section 18A, or

(iii) the date of the final payment of an ancillary grant to the relevant owner under section 22,

and

(b) the second charge shall be deemed to have been executed on the date of the retrospective payment.”,

and

(b) by the substitution, in subsection (4), of “section 31(2) or section 31(2A), as the case may be” for “section 31(2)”.