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SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 3Minor and Consequential Amendments

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

29In section 1—

(a)in subsection (3), at the beginning, there shall be inserted the words " Subject to subsection (3A) below "; and

(b)after subsection (3) there shall be inserted the following subsection—

(3A)Any reference in this Act to works required for the improvement of a house does not include a reference to works specified in a notice under section 107 of the [1966 c. 49.] Housing (Scotland) Act 1966 (which empowers a local authority to require the provision of a means of escape from fire in a house in multiple occupation) or to works required in connection with works so specified..

30In section 6(1)(b) for the words " 7(4) or 10A(4)" there shall be substituted the words " or, as the case may be, 7(4) ".

31In section 10A—

(a)in subsection (3) (which provides that a local authority shall have regard to the means of an applicant for repairs grant), at the end there shall be added the following proviso—

Provided that the foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply in any such case as may be prescribed.; and

(b)in subsection (5) (which applies certain provisions relating to applications for improvement grants to applications for repairs grants), at the end there shall be added the words

except that for the purposes of their so applying the reference to ' section 5(1) or, as the case may be, 7(4)' in section 6(1)(b) shall be construed as a reference to subsection (4) of this section:

Provided that section 3(2)(c) of this Act shall not apply in relation to an application for a repairs grant in respect of the replacement in a different material of such pipes, tanks, cisterns, taps or other equipment used for the supply of water to a house as are wholly or partly made of lead..

32In section 12 (which makes provision for Exchequer contributions towards improvement or repairs grants)—

(a)in subsection (1), for the words " or a repairs grant" there shall be substituted the words " , a repairs grant, or a grant under section 10B(1) of this Act "; and

(b)in subsection (2), after the words " per cent." there shall be inserted the words " (in the case of an improvement or repairs grant), or 90 per cent, (in the case of a grant under section 10B(1) of this Act) ".

33In section 49(3) (interpretation) in the definition of "prescribed "—

(a)for the words " and 10A(4) so far as relating to a percentage " there shall be substituted the words " , 10A(4), so far as relating to a percentage, and 10B(3) and (4) "; and

(b)for the words " section 3(3)" there shall be substituted the words " sections 3(3A) and 10A(3) ".