Rent Act 1974

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(3)After section 95 of the M1Rent (Scotland) Act 1971 there shall be inserted the following section:—

95A Power of sheriff, in action for possession, to reduce period of notice to quit.

In any case where—

(a)a notice to quit a dwelling-house which is the subject of a Part VII contract has been served, and

(b)the period at the end of which the notice to quit takes effect is for the time being extended by virtue of section 92 or section 93 above, and

(c)at some time during that period the lessor institutes proceedings before the sheriff for possession of the dwelling-house, and

(d)in those proceedings the sheriff is satisfied that any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 95(2) above applies,

the sheriff may direct that the period referred to in paragraph (b) above shall be reduced se as to end at a date specified in the direction.

Textual Amendments

F1Ss. 3(1), 4(1)(2), 14(1)(2), 17(4) repealed by Rent Act 1977 (c. 42, SIF 75:3), s. 155, Sch. 25 (subject to the savings and transitional provisions in Sch. 24)

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1The text of ss. 1(4)(a, 2(1)(2), 3(2), 4(3)(4), 9, 10, 14(3), 16(2) is in the form in which it was originally enacted: it was not reproduced in Statutes in Force and, except as specified, does not reflect any amendments or repeals which may have been made prior to 1.2.1991.

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