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Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982

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Version Superseded: 01/10/2009

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Civic Government (Scotland) Act 1982, Section 87 is up to date with all changes known to be in force on or before 27 November 2024. There are changes that may be brought into force at a future date. Changes that have been made appear in the content and are referenced with annotations. Help about Changes to Legislation

87 Local authorities’ powers in relation to buildings in need of repair.S

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(2)For the purposes of this section, any object or structure fixed to a building or forming part of the land and comprised within the curtilage of a building shall be treated as part of the building.

(3)Where it appears to a local authority to be necessary in the interests of health or safety or to prevent damage to any property that they should repair immediately a building in their area, they may without prior notice rectify such defects in the building as could have been specified in a notice under subsection (1) above had such a notice been served and any person authorised by them may, on their behalf, for these purposes, enter the building and the land pertaining thereto.

(4)The local authority may recover from the owner of the building the expense of anything done by them under subsection (3) above or, where there is more than one owner, apportion such expense among them and recover from each the appropriate sum, but may remit any sum or any part of any sum due to them under this subsection as they think fit.

(5)A person who, in compliance with a notice served under [F2section 28 of the Building (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 8)] or under section 20 of the M1Public Health (Scotland) Act 1897, carries out work on a building which is, for the purposes of [F3Part V of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987], a house shall have the same entitlement to loans and grants as he would have had if the notice had been served and to the extent that it could have been served under section [F3108 of that Act].

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