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Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

Housing (Scotland) Act 2025

2025 asp 13

Crown Application

Part 4 – Other Matters Relating to Tenants

Tolerable standard: damp

Section 47 - Tolerable standard: damp

128.This section modifies section 86 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (definition of house meeting a tolerable standard) to provide that guidance issued by the Scottish Ministers about construing references to a house not meeting the tolerable standard or being brought up to that standard, may also include guidance on the circumstances in which a house is to be considered substantially free from rising or penetrating damp for the purpose of section 86(1)(b) of that Act.

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