Housing (Scotland) Act 1987

PART I S APPLICATION OF ACCOUNT

1 (1) The houses, buildings and land specified for the purposes of section 203(1) (the housing revenue account) are— S

(a) all houses and other buildings which have been provided after 12th February 1919 for the purpose of—

(i) Part III of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1925, or

(ii) any enactment relating to the provision of housing accommodation for the working classes repealed by that Act, or

(iii) Part V of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1950, or

(iv) Part VII of the Act of 1966, or

(v) Part I of this Act;

(b) all land which after that date has been acquired or appropriated for the purposes of any of the enactments mentioned or referred to in paragraph (a) including—

(i) all land which is deemed to have been acquired under Part III of the said Act of 1925 by virtue of section 15(4) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1935, and

(ii) any structures on such land which were made available to a local authority under section 1 of the Housing (Temporary Accommodation) Act 1944;

(c) all dwellings provided or improved by the local authority in accordance with improvement proposals approved by the Secretary of State under—

(i) section 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1949, or

(ii) section 105 of the said Act of 1950, or

(iii) section 13 of the Act of 1968,

and all land acquired or appropriated by the authority for the purpose of carrying out such proposals;

(d) all houses in housing action areas within the meaning of Part II of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 or Part IV of this Act which have been purchased by the local authority under Part II of the said Act of 1974 or Part IV of this Act for the purpose of bringing them or another house up to the standard specified under section 16(3) or by virtue of section 17(3) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 or section 90(3) or 91(3) of this Act;

(e) all buildings provided or converted for use as lodging houses (that is to say houses not occupied as separate dwellings) or hostels as defined in section 138(4) of the Act of 1966 and section 2(5) of this Act or as parts of lodging houses or hostels.

(2) Where a house is for the time being vested in a local authority by reason of the default of any person in carrying out the terms of any arrangements under which assistance in respect of the provision, reconstruction or improvement of the house has been given under any enactment relating to housing, the house shall be deemed for the purposes of sub-paragraph (1) to be a house which has been provided by the authority under Part VII of the Act of 1966 or Part I of this Act.

(3) The houses and other property to which a local authority’s housing revenue account relates shall include any property brought within the account before 27th August 1972—

(a) with the consent of the Secretary of State given under section 60(1)(f) of the Act of 1968, or

(b) by virtue of subsection (2) of the said section (house vesting in local authority on default of another person).

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 Sch. 15 para. 1(1)(e) extended (1.4.1999) by S.I. 1999/828, art. 3(3)