30.—(1) Where an applicant has ceased to occupy what was formerly the dwelling occupied as the home following the applicant’s estrangement or divorce from, or dissolution of the applicant’s civil partnership with, the applicant’s former partner, that dwelling for a period of 26 weeks from the date on which the applicant ceased to occupy that dwelling or, where the dwelling is occupied as the home by the former partner who is a lone parent, for so long as it is so occupied.
(2) In this paragraph “dwelling” (“annedd”) includes any garage, garden and outbuildings, which were formerly occupied by the applicant as the applicant’s home and any premises not so occupied which it is impracticable or unreasonable to sell separately, in particular, in Scotland, any croft land on which the dwelling is situated.