{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-76",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985/section-76.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1985/68",
  "legislation_title": "Housing Act 1985",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-act-1985",
  "path": "section/76",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "76",
  "heading": "Application of this Part to cases arising in Scotland.",
  "text": "(1) Sections 67 and 68 (referral of application to another local housing authority and duties to persons whose applications are referred) apply—\n(a) to applications referred by a housing authority in Scotland in pursuance of section 5(1) of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 197733 and 34 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987, and\n(b) to persons whose applications are so transferred,\nas they apply to cases arising under this Part.\n(2) Section 72 (duty of other authorities to co-operate with local housing authority) applies to a request by a housing authority in Scotland under section 9(1) of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 197738 of the Act of 1987 as it applies to a request by a local housing authority in England or Wales.\n(3) In this Part, in relation to Scotland—\n(a) “local housing authority” means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994 and references to the district of such an authority are to the area of that council,\n(b) “social services authority” means a local authority for the purposes of the Social Work (Scotland) Act 1968, that is to say, a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994;\nand in section 72(a) (requests for co-operation) “new town corporation” includes a development corporation established under the New Towns (Scotland) 1968.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "By Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 335, 339(2), Sch. 23 para. 30(1)(a) (which by s. 340(3) is expressed to extend to Scotland only) it is provided that for “5(1) of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977” there is substituted (S.) “33 and 34 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987”"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "By Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26, SIF 61), ss. 335, 339(2), Sch. 23 para. 30(1)(b) (which by s. 340(3) is expressed to extend to Scotland only) it is provided that for “9(1) of the Housing (Homeless Persons) Act 1977” there is substituted (S.) “38 of the Act of 1987”"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "S. 76(3)(a): it is provided that for the words “district or islands council”there shall be substituted (1.4.1996) the words “council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc. (Scotland) Act 1994”by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 142(2)(a) (which by s. 184(4) extends to Scotland only); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 76(3)(b): it is provided that for the words “regional or islands council”there shall be substituted (1.4.1996) the words “council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.(Scotland) Act 1994”by 1994 c. 39, s. 180(1), Sch. 13 para. 142(2)(b) (which by s. 184(4) extends to Scotland only); S.I. 1996/323, art. 4(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "1977 c. 48."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M2",
      "text": "1968 c. 49."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M3",
      "text": "1968 c. 16."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1985/68/section/76",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:59:47.243826+00:00",
    "licence": "OGL-UK-3.0",
    "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."
  }
}