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Tenants’ Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980 (c. 52)

This version of this statute is extracted from the UK Statute Law Database (SLD). It is not necessarily in the form in which it was originally enacted but is a revised version, which means that any subsequent amendments to the text and other effects are incorporated with annotations.

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Tenants’ Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980

1980 CHAPTER 52

Contents

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  1. Parts I, II

    1. 1—25... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  2. Part III

    1. 26—32... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  3. Part IV

    Provisions Relating to Private Sector Tenancies

    1. Interpretation

      1. 33. Interpretation of Part IV

    2. 34—36.. Short tenancies

    3. Limits on rent increase

      1. 37. Limits on rent increases

      2. 38.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 39. Amendment of Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951

      4. 40.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    4. Miscellaneous amendments of enactments relating to private sector tenancies

      1. 41.

      2. 42—45... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      3. 46. Conversion of all remaining controlled tenancies

      4. 47, 48... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      5. 49. Repeal of provisions relating to increase of recoverable rent on account of improvements

      6. 50—63... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      7. 64. Pensions etc. for Rent Assessment Panel

      8. 65. Increases in penalties for offences relating to houses in multiple occupation

  4. Part V

    Miscellaneous

    1. Improvement grants

      1. 66—73... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

      2. 74. Discretion of court in cases relating to instalment purchase agreements

      3. 75—81... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

  5. Part VI

    Supplementary

    1. 82—85... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    2. 86. Citation, commencement and extent

  6. A1, 1—4.

  7. SCHEDULE 5

An Act to make provision for Scotland, in relation to dwelling-houses let by islands and district councils and by certain other bodies, for a tenant’s right to purchase the dwelling-house which he occupies; to make provision, in relation to dwelling-houses let by islands and district councils and by certain other bodies, for a tenant’s right to security of tenure and to a written lease; in relation to private sector tenancies, to make provision for a new category of short tenancies; and to make other provision in relation to housing, rents and connected matters.

[1st August 1985]

Parts I, II

1—25.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .F1

Annotations:

Amendments (Textual)

F1Pts. I, II (ss. 1–25) repealed by Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 335, 339(3), Sch. 24 (with savings for ss. 16(2)(3)(b), 24(1) in s. 339(1), Sch. 22 paras. 7, 12)