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Part IVE+W+S Miscellaneous Reforms

HomelessnessS

65 Homelessness.S

(1)Section 24 of the M1Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (definition of homelessness and persons threatened with homelessness) shall be amended as follows.

(2)After subsection (2) there shall be inserted the following subsections—

(2A)A person shall not be treated as having accommodation unless it is accommodation which it would be reasonable for him to continue to occupy.

(2B)Regard may be had, in determining whether it would be reasonable for a person to continue to occupy accommodation, to the general circumstances prevailing in relation to housing in the area of the local authority to whom he has applied for accommodation or for assistance in obtaining accommodation.

(3)In subsection (3), after paragraph (b) there shall be inserted—

(bb)it is probable that occupation of it will lead to—

(i)violence; or

(ii)threats of violence which are likely to be carried out,

from some other person who previously resided with that person, whether in that accommodation or elsewhere, or.

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