Housing (Scotland) Act 1987

172 Management code to be available for dwellings in certain tenements. S

(1) If—

(a) all the dwellings in any tenement are owned by the same person, and

(b) all or any of those dwellings are without one or more of the standard amenities,

sections 156 to 160 shall apply to the tenement as if references in those sections to a house which, or a part of which, is let in lodgings, or which is occupied by members of more than one family included references to the tenement.

(2) If a local authority make an order under section 157, as applied by subsection (1), in respect of any tenement at a time when another order under that section is in force as respects one of the dwellings in the tenement, they shall revoke the last-mentioned order.

(3) References to a house in section 163 (so far as relating to appeals against notices under section 160) and in sections 164, 175 and 177 shall include references to a tenement to which this section applies.

(4) In this section—

• “dwelling” means a building or part of a building occupied or intended to be occupied as a separate house;

• “tenement” means a building which contains two or more flats.