The Housing (Preservation of Right to Buy) (Scotland) Regulations 1993

Interpretation

2.  In these Regulations, unless the context otherwise requires–

“the Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;

“co-operative housing association” has the same meaning as in section 300(1)(b) of the Act;

“qualifying person” means a person occupying a house as his only or principal home and who–

(a)

was the former secure tenant or former joint secure tenant of a house and whose former secure tenancy ceased to be such on the disposal by the landlord of the house to his current private sector landlord;

(b)

became entitled to succeed on the death of the former secure tenant to a statutory assured tenancy under section 31 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988((1)); or

(c)

as the spouse of a former secure tenant became a tenant of a house by virtue of an order of the court under section 13 of the Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981((2));

“qualifying house” means the house referred to in the chapeau to paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of the definition of “qualifying person”.

(1)

1988 c. 43.

(2)

1981 c. 59.