Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972

32 Service charges

(1) A local authority shall be required to make a charge for the year 1972-73 and subsequent years in respect of the following items to which the housing revenue account relates—

(a) any garage, car-port or other car parking facilities provided by them, whether before the year 1972-73 or not, in so far as not included within the terms of the tenancy of a house ;

(b) any service provided by them under the terms of the tenancy of a house, except any such service as the Secretary of State may, after consultation with such associations of local authorities as appear to him to be concerned and with any local authority with whom consultation appears to him to be desirable, otherwise direct either generally or in a particular case.

(2) Where a local authority made a charge for the year 1971-72 in respect of anything to which the housing revenue account relates—

(a) provided by them under section 139 or 141 of the Act of 1966 (other than anything referred to in subsection (1)(a) or (b) above), or

(b) supplied by them under section 140 of the Act of 1966,

and such a thing continues to be made available or supplied by them after that year, they shall continue to impose such a charge.

(3) Any charge referred to in this section (in this Act called "a service charge") shall be of such amount as the local authority consider reasonable in all the circumstances.