PART 7 MISCELLANEOUS AND GENERAL

Miscellaneous

I1106 Equal opportunities

1

The Scottish Ministers and local authorities must exercise the functions conferred on them by this Act in a manner which encourages equal opportunities and in particular the observance of the equal opportunity requirements.

2

In providing housing accommodation and related services, registered social landlords must act in a manner which encourages equal opportunities and in particular the observance of the equal opportunity requirements.

3

In this section, “equal opportunities” and “equal opportunity requirements” have the same meanings as in Section L2 (equal opportunities) of Part II of Schedule 5 to the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).

I2107 Local authority maintenance of houses etc. of registered social landlord

1

Section 1 (supply of goods and services by local authorities) of the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970 (c.39) applies in relation to a registered social landlord as if it were a public body within the meaning of subsection (4) of that section.

2

In such application, the definition of “works of maintenance” in that subsection has effect as if the word “minor” wherever it occurs were omitted.

I3108 Meaning of “family” and “spouse”: cohabitation

1

For the purposes of this Act, a person (“A”) is a member of another’s (“B’s”) family if—

a

A is the spouse of B, or A and B live together as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex, or

b

A is B’s parent, grandparent, child, grandchild, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, nephew or niece.

2

For the purpose of subsection (1)(b)—

a

a relationship by marriage is to be treated as a relationship by blood,

b

a relationship of the half-blood is to be treated as a relationship of the whole blood,

c

the stepchild of a person is to be treated as that person’s child, and

d

a person brought up or treated by another person as if the person were the child of the other person is to be treated as that person’s child.

3

In section 83 (members of a person’s family) of the 1987 Act—

a

in subsection (1)(a), after “wife” insert “ or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex ”,

b

in subsection (2), after paragraph (c) insert—

ca

a person brought up or treated by another person as if the person were the child of the other person shall be treated as that person’s child;

c

after subsection (2) insert—

3

Except in subsection (1)(a), references in this Act to a person’s spouse include references to another person living together with that person as husband and wife or in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between husband and wife except that the persons are of the same sex.