Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1978

1. Introductory Text

2. Government grants to housing authorities and voluntary organisations

   1. 1. Housing support grants: fixing of aggregate amount

   2. 2. Apportionment of housing support grants

   3. 3. Variation of orders

   4. 4. Grants payable to the Scottish Special Housing Association and development corporations

   5. 5. Financial assistance to voluntary organisations concerned with housing

   6. 6. Payment of grants and accounting provisions

   7. 7. Termination of certain exchequer payments to housing authorities

3. Grants and loans by local authorities

   1. 8. Repairs grant

   2. 9. Duty of local authority to offer loans to meet expenses of repairs

4. Miscellaneous and general

   1. 10. Improvement of houses below tolerable standard outside housing action areas

   2. 11. Amendments relating to the housing revenue account

   3. 12. Amendments relating to rent rebates and allowances

   4. 13. Rent rebates and allowances to persons in receipt of supplementary benefit

   5. 14. Rent limits of houses belonging to housing associations and the Housing Corporation

   6. 15. Reserve power to limit rents

   7. 16. Minor and consequential amendments and repeals

   8. 17. Financial provisions

   9. 18. Interpretation

   10. 19. Citation, commencement and extent

5. SCHEDULES

   1. SCHEDULE 1

      Enactments Relating to Existing Exchequer Payments

      1. PART I Payments to Local Authorities

      2. PART II Payments to the Scottish Special Housing Association and development corporations

      3. PART III Payments to the Scottish Special Housing Association

   2. SCHEDULE 2

      Minor and Consequential Amendments

      1. PART I Minor Amendments

         1. The Housing (Scotland) Act 1966 (c. 49)

            1. 1. In section 138 (mode of provision of housing accommodation)—

            2. 2. In section 145 (powers of dealing with land acquired or...

         2. The Housing Subsidies Act 1967 (c. 29)

            1. 3. In section 27(1) (qualifying lenders), after paragraph (f) there shall...

         3. The Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968 (c. 31)

            1. 4. In section 25(1) (advances to Scottish Special Housing Association for...

            2. 5. In section 49 (power to make advances to increase housing...

         4. The Housing (Scotland) Act 1969 (c. 34)

            1. 6. In section 24 (power of local authority to secure repair...

            2. 7. In section 25 (recovery by local authority of expenses under...

         5. The Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 46)

            1. 8. In section 15 (rent rebates)— (a) in subsections (1) and...

            2. 9. In section 16(3) (rent allowances to private tenants)—

            3. 10. In section 16(4), (5) and (5A) for the words "...

            4. 11. In section 78 (interpretation)— (a) in subsection (1), in the...

         6. The Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 56)

            1. 12. In section 27 (right to home loss payment where person...

            2. 13. In section 34 (disturbance payments for persons without compensatable interests)—...

            3. 14. In section 36 (duty to re-house residential occupiers)—

         7. The Housing Act 1974 (c. 44)

            1. 15. At the end of paragraph 4 of Schedule 10A (rehabilitation...

         8. The Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 (c. 45)

            1. 16. In section 1 (power of local authorities to make improvement...

            2. 17. In section 3 (conditions for approval of applications for improvement...

            3. 18. In section 5 (amount of improvement grant)—

            4. 19. In section 7 (duty of local authorities to make improvement...

            5. 20. In section 9(9) (registration of conditions to be observed with...

            6. 21. In section 11 (application of Part I to houses in...

            7. 22. In section 15 (declaration of housing action areas for demolition)—...

            8. 23. In section 16(4) (declaration of housing action areas for improvement)—...

            9. 24. In section 17 (declaration of housing action areas for demolition...

            10. 25. In section 30 (payments in respect of well-maintained houses)—

            11. 26. In section 44(1) (power of local authority to arrange for...

            12. 27. After section 44 there shall be inserted the following section—...

            13. 28. In section 49(3) (interpretation)— (a) in the definition of "...

            14. 29. In paragraph 7 of Schedule 2 (consequences of breach of...

      2. PART II Consequential Amendments

         1. The Housing (Scotland) Act 1969 (c. 34)

            1. 30. In section 18(1) (right to and amount of payments to...

            2. 31. In section 19 (house subject to heritable security or purchased...

            3. 32. In section 20(1) (interpretation of sections 18 and 19), after...

         2. The Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972 (c. 46)

            1. 33. In section 1 (introduction of new housing subsidies)—

            2. 34. In section 5(2) (the rent rebate subsidy), in the Table...

            3. 35. In section 6 (the rent allowance subsidy)—

            4. 36. In section 22(1) (interpretation of Part II), for the definition...

            5. 37. In paragraph 1 of Schedule 4 (amounts to be credited...

            6. 38. In paragraph 2 of Schedule 4 (amounts to be debited...

         3. The Land Compensation (Scotland) Act 1973 (c. 56)

            1. 39. In section 27(7) (home loss payments), at the end of...

         4. The Housing (Scotland) Act 1974 (c. 45)

            1. 40. In section 6(1)(b) (payment of improvement grant) for the words...

            2. 41. In section 11 (application of Part I to houses in...

            3. 42. In section 29(2) (compensation in respect of land acquired compulsorily)—...

            4. 43. In section 43(1) (exclusion of houses controlled by Crown), after...

   3. SCHEDULE 3

      Repeals