Housing (Scotland) Act 1987

14 Powers of local authorities to sell certain houses without consent of Secretary of State. S

(1) Subject to section 74(2) of the M1 Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973 (restriction on disposal of land) but notwithstanding anything contained in section 12(6) or in any other enactment, a local authority may sell any house to which this section applies without the consent of the Secretary of State.

(2) This section applies to a house provided for the purposes of this Part, where—

(a) the house is being sold to a tenant or to members of his family who normally reside with him (or to a tenant together with such members of his family, as joint purchasers) [F1 or, in pursuance of Part III of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (change of landlord)]; or

(b) the house is unoccupied and—

(i) it is not held on the housing revenue account maintained in terms of section 203; or

(ii) it is held on the housing revenue account and it is, in the opinion of the local authority, either surplus to its requirements or difficult to let, because it has been continuously vacant for a period of not less than 3 months immediately prior to the date of the sale and during that period it has been on unrestricted offer to any applicant on the local authority’s housing list (within the meaning of section 19 (admission to housing list)).

Textual Amendments

F1 Words added by Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43, SIF 61), s. 56(11)

Marginal Citations

M1 1973 c. 65.