SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28Consequential amendments: Scotland

Part 4Miscellaneous amendments

Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 58)

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In Schedule 1A (statutory or statutory assured tenants by succession: certain cases), in paragraph 2—

a

in sub-paragraph (1), after “spouse” (in both places) insert “ or civil partner ” and after “spouse's” insert “ or civil partner's ”,

b

in sub-paragraph (2), at the end insert “ and a person who was living with the original tenant in a relationship which had the characteristics of the relationship between civil partners shall be treated as the civil partner of the original tenant ”, and

c

in sub-paragraph (3), after “couples)” insert “ or under section 101 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 ” and after “spouse” insert “ , or as the case may be as the surviving civil partner, ”.