Housing (Scotland) Act 1987

284 Alternative accommodation under s. 282 or 283

(1) The house to be let under the tenancy granted to a person—

(a) under section 282 or 283 (grant of tenancy to former owner occupier or statutory tenant of defective house acquired by authority), or

(b) under arrangements made for the purposes of section 283,

shall be the house of which he is the occupier immediately before the completion of the authority's acquisition (the "current house"), except in the following Cases—

• Case 1

  By reason of the condition of any building of which the current house consists or of which it forms part, the house may not safely be occupied for residential purposes.

• Case 2

  The authority intend, within a reasonable time of the completion of their acquisition of the interest concerned—

  (a)

  to demolish or reconstruct the building which consists of or includes the defective dwelling in question, or

  (b)

  to carry out work on any building or land in which the interest concerned subsists,

  and cannot reasonably do so if the current house remains in residential occupation.

(2) In those Cases the house to be let shall be another house which, so far as is reasonably practicable in the case of that authority, affords accommodation which is—

(a) similar as regards extent and character to the accommodation afforded by the current house,

(b) reasonably suitable to the means of the prospective tenant and his family, and

(c) reasonably suitable to the needs of the prospective tenant and his family as regards proximity to place of work and place of education.