{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998/section-23",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998/section-23.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1998/37",
  "legislation_title": "Crime and Disorder Act 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/crime-and-disorder-act-1998",
  "path": "section/23",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "23",
  "heading": "Anti-social behaviour as ground of eviction.",
  "text": "(1) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(3) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(4) For Ground 15 in Schedule 5 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (eviction on ground of use of premises for immoral or illegal purposes etc.) there shall be substituted the following—\n“ Ground 15\nThe tenant, a person residing or lodging in the house with the tenant or a person visiting the house has—\n(a) been convicted of—\n(i) using or allowing the house to be used for immoral or illegal purposes; or\n(ii) an offence punishable by imprisonment committed in, or in the locality of, the house; or\n(b) acted in an anti-social manner in relation to a person residing, visiting or otherwise engaging in lawful activity in the locality; or\n(c) pursued a course of anti-social conduct in relation to such a person as is mentioned in head (b) above.\nIn this Ground “anti-social”, in relation to an action or course of conduct, means causing or likely to cause alarm, distress, nuisance or annoyance, “conduct” includes speech and a course of conduct must involve conduct on at least two occasions and “tenant” includes any one of joint tenants.”\n(5) No person shall be liable to eviction under paragraph 2 or 7 of Schedule 3 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 or Ground 15 in Schedule 5 to the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 as substituted respectively by subsection (2), (3) and (4) above in respect of any act or conduct before the commencement of this section unless he would have been liable to be evicted under those paragraphs or, as the case may be, that Ground as they had effect before that substitution.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 23(1)-(3) repealed (30.9.2002) by The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10), s. 112, Sch. 10 para. 27; S.S.I. 2002/321, art. 2, Sch. (with arts. 3-5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1988 c.43."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1987 c.26."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1988 c.43."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1998/37/section/23",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:22:25.156552+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}