# The Community Right to Buy (Scotland) Regulations 2015, Regulation 2: Prescribed types of area

Extent: S

For the purposes of section 34(5) of the Act, the types of area by reference to which a community shall be defined are—
(a) an electoral ward within the meaning of section 1 of the Local Governance (Scotland) Act 2004;
(b) the area of a community council established in accordance with Part IV of the Local Government (Scotland) Act 1973;
(c) a postcode area, being an area given a unique alphabetic coding to facilitate the delivering of mail, being identified by one or two alphabetical characters at the start of the full postcode, the letters being derived from a town, city or district falling within that postcode area;
(d) a postcode district, being a sub-area of a postcode area, identified by the characters within the first half of a full postcode, which may be numeric, alphabetic or alpha-numeric;
(e) a postcode sector, being a sub-area of a postcode district, identified by the number third from the end of a postcode unit;
(f) an island;
(g) a settlement delineated on the maps attached to Scottish Settlements: Urban and Rural Areas in Scotland published on 5th February 2001; or
(h) a locality delineated on the maps attached to Scotland’s Census 2001: Key Statistics for Settlements and Localities Scotland published on 23rd March 2003.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2015/400/regulation/2 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/community-right-to-buy-scotland-regulations-2015/regulation-2
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