The Landlord’s Repairing Obligations (Specified Rent) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 1988
1.
This Order may be cited as the Landlord’s Repairing Obligations (Specified Rent) (Scotland) (No. 2) Order 1988 and shall come into force on 2nd January 1989.
2.
For the purposes of paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (Landlord’s obligations to repair a house under which no rent is payable or the rent payable is less than that specified) there is specified
(a)
in the case of a contract where the rent is payable weekly, a rent of £300 per week; and
(b)
in the case of a contract where the rent is payable for any other period, a rent calculated for that period at the rate of £300 per week.
3.
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
Paragraph 1 of Schedule 10 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 as amended by paragraph 9 of Schedule 8 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 provides that in any contract to which the paragraph applies there shall, notwithstanding any stipulations to the contrary, be implied a condition that the house is at the commencement of the tenancy and an undertaking that the house will be kept by the landlord during the tenancy in all respects reasonably fit for human habitation.
Paragraph (1) applies to any contract for letting a house for human habitation under which no rent is payable or the rent payable is less than that specified by order. This order specifies —
in the case of a contract where the rent is payable weekly, a rent of £300 per week; and
in the case of a contract where the rent is payable for any other period, a rent calculated for that period at the rate of £300 per week.