Saving provision3
Despite the amendment of sections 32 and 33 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (“the 1988 Act”)2 by section 75 and paragraph 2 of schedule 5 of the Act, those sections have effect on and after 1st December 2017 as they had effect immediately before that date but only in relation to—
a
a short assured tenancy (within the meaning given in section 32(1) of the 1988 Act) which was created before 1st December 2017 and continues in existence on that date;
b
a new contractual tenancy (within the meaning given in section 32(3)(b) of the 1988 Act) which came into being before 1st December 2017 and continues in existence on that date; and
c
a new contractual tenancy (within the meaning given in section 32(3)(b) of the 1988 Act) which comes into being after 1st December 2017 at the ish of a short assured tenancy which is a short assured tenancy in a case mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b).