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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a Scottish Statutory Instrument: The Housing Support Services (Homelessness) (Scotland) Regulations 2012 No. 331
2.—(1) For the purposes of section 32B(1) (whether a person may be in need of prescribed housing support services) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 the following housing support services are prescribed—
(a)advising or assisting a person with personal budgeting, debt counselling or in dealing with welfare benefit claims;
(b)assisting a person to engage with individuals, professionals or other bodies with an interest in that person’s welfare;
(c)advising or assisting a person in understanding and managing their tenancy rights and responsibilities, including assisting a person in disputes about those rights and responsibilities;
(d)advising or assisting a person in settling into a new tenancy.
(2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), housing support services are prescribed only insofar as they are relevant to enabling that person to occupy, or to continue to occupy, residential accommodation as that person’s sole or main residence.
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