SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 17Minor and Consequential Amendments

Part IGeneral Amendments

The Housing (Scotland) Act 1987

77

In section 12 of the [1987 c. 26.] Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (which relates, amongst other things, to the disposal by local authorities of land acquired or appropriated for housing purposes and of houses)—

a

in subsection (1)(c), for the words “subsection (5)” there shall be substituted the words “subsections (5) and (7)”;

b

in subsection (7)—

i

for “(1)(d)” there shall be substituted “(1)(c) or (d)”;

ii

for the words “house or any part share thereof” there shall be substituted the words “land, house or part share thereof”;

iii

for the words “it is a house” there shall be substituted the words “, in the case of a house, it is one”;

c

in subsection (8) after the word “apply” there shall be inserted the words “, in the case of a house,”.

78

In section 13 of that Act (power of Secretary of State in certain cases to impose conditions on sale of local authority’s houses etc.) for the words “land or dwelling” there shall be substituted the words “or land”.

79

In section 61(4)(b) of the [1987 c. 26.] Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 after sub-paragraph (vi) there shall be inserted the following sub-paragraphs—

vii

section 50 of the Housing Act 1988 (housing association grants); or

viii

section 51 of that Act (revenue deficit grants); or