Housing Act 1974

42 (1) In section 27 of the Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (right to home loss payment where person displaced from dwelling), subsection (1) shall be amended as follows:—

(a) in paragraph (c) after the words " the carrying out of" there shall be inserted the words " any improvement to the dwelling or of " and at the end of that paragraph there shall be added the following paragraph:—

“(d) where the land has previously been acquired by a registered housing association, within the meaning of the Housing Act 1974, the carrying out by that association of any improvement to the dwelling or of redevelopment on the land”; and

(b) for the words from "the acquiring authority" to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the following paragraphs:—

“(i) where paragraph (a) above applies, the acquiring authority;

(ii) where paragraph (b) above applies, the authority who made the order, passed the resolution or accepted the undertaking;

(iii) where paragraph (c) above applies, the authority carrying out the improvement or redevelopment; and

(iv) where paragraph (d) above applies, the housing association carrying out the improvement or redevelopment.”

(2) After subsection (3) of that section there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(3A) For the purposes of this section a person shall not be treated as displaced from a dwelling in consequence of the carrying out of any improvement to the dwelling unless he is permanently displaced from it in consequence of the carrying out of the improvement in question.”

(3) In subsection (7) of that section the words " and ' redevelopment ' includes a change of use " shall be omitted and at the end of that subsection there shall be inserted the following subsection:—

“(7A) In this section

• ' improvement ' includes alteration and enlargement; and ' redevelopment ' includes a change of use”.