Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973

30 Home loss payments for certain caravan dwellers

(1) Sections 27 to 29 above shall, so far as applicable, have effect in relation to a person residing in a caravan on a caravan site who is displaced from that site as they have effect in relation to a person displaced from a dwelling on any land but shall so have effect subject to the following modifications.

(2) No home loss payment shall be made to any person by virtue of this section except where no suitable alternative site for stationing a caravan is available to him on reasonable terms.

(3) Subsection (1) of section 27 above shall have effect as if for the words preceding paragraph (a) there were substituted the words " Where a person residing in a caravan on a caravan site is displaced from that site in consequence of " and subsection (2) of that section shall have effect as if for paragraphs (a) and (b) there were substituted—

“(a) he has been in occupation of the caravan site by using a caravan stationed on it as his only or main residence; and

(b) he has been in occupation of the site as aforesaid by virtue of an interest or right to which this section applies.”

(4) Section 28(3) above shall have effect as if—

(a) paragraph (b) were omitted ; and

(b) in paragraphs (a) and (c) for the word " dwelling " there were substituted the words " caravan site together with a caravan ".

(5) Section 29 above shall have effect—

(a) as if in subsection (3) for the words " in occupation of a dwelling or a substantial part of it", " resided in the dwelling, or a substantial part of it" and " in occupation thereof" there were substituted respectively the words " in occupation of a caravan site " , " resided in a caravan on that site " and " in occupation of that site ";

(b) as if in subsection (4) for the words "resided in the dwelling, or a substantial part of it" there were substituted the words " resided in a caravan on the caravan site "; and

(c) as if for subsection (5) there were substituted—

“(5) Where any land comprises two or more caravan sites and the claimant has successively been in occupation of or resided in a caravan on different caravan sites on that land, section 27 (2) above and subsections (3) and (4) above shall have effect as if those sites were the same site.”.

(6) Sections 27 to 29 above shall have effect as if in any provision not modified as aforesaid for any reference to a dwelling or land there were substituted a reference to a caravan site.

(7) In this section "caravan site" means land on which a caravan is stationed for the purpose of human habitation and land which is used in conjunction with land on which a caravan is so stationed.