C1C2Part II Rented Accommodation

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Pt. II (ss. 12–55) excluded by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 103, 128, 145, 335

Assured tenancies

12 Assured tenancies.

1

A tenancy under which a house is let as a separate dwelling is for the purposes of this Act an assured tenancy if and so long as—

a

the tenant or, as the case may be, at least one of the joint tenants is an individual; and

b

the tenant or, as the case may be, at least one of the joint tenants occupies the house as his only or principal home; and

c

the tenancy is not one which, by virtue of subsection (2) below, cannot be an assured tenancy.

2

If and so long as a tenancy falls within any paragraph of Schedule 4 to this Act, it cannot be an assured tenancy; and in that Schedule “tenancy” means a tenancy under which a house is let as a separate dwelling.