SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28Consequential amendments: Scotland

Part 4Miscellaneous amendments

Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43)

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(1)

Amend section 31 (right of succession of spouse) as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1), after “spouse” (in both places) insert “ or civil partner ”.

(3)

In subsection (3)(b), after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”.

(4)

In subsection (4)—

(a)

the existing words from “as his” to the end become paragraph (a), and

(b)

after that paragraph insert the following paragraph—

“(b)

in a relationship which had the characteristics of the relationship between civil partners shall be treated as the tenant’s civil partner”.

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In Part 1 of Schedule 5 (grounds on which sheriff must order possession), in paragraph (b) of ground 1, after “spouse's” insert “ or civil partner's ”.