Housing (Scotland) Act 1986

7 Contributions towards the cost of transfers and exchanges

After section 25 of the 1980 Act there shall be inserted the following cross-heading and section—

“Transfers and Exchanges

25A Contributions towards the cost of transfers and exchanges.

(1) The Secretary of State may with the consent of the Treasury make out of money provided by Parliament grants or loans towards the cost of arrangements for facilitating moves to and from homes by which—

(a) a secure tenant of one landlord (the " first landlord ") becomes, at his own request, the secure tenant of a different landlord (whether or not by means of an exchange whereby a secure tenant of the different landlord becomes the secure tenant of the first landlord); or

(b) each of two or more tenants of dwelling-houses, one at least of which is let under a secure tenancy, becomes the tenant of the other dwelling house (or, as the case may be, of one of the other dwelling houses).

(2) The grants or loans may be made subject to such conditions as the Secretary of State may determine, and may be made so as to be repayable (or, as the case may be, repayable earlier) if there is a breach of such a condition.

(3) In subsection (1) above, the reference to a " secure tenant" is to a tenant under a secure tenancy within the meaning of this Act or of the [1985 c. 68.] Housing Act 1985 or of Chapter II of Part II of the [S.I. 1983/1118 (N.I. 15).] Housing (Northern Ireland) Order 1983.”.