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.