{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987/section-28",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987/section-28.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/26",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987",
  "path": "section/28",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "28",
  "heading": "Inquiry into cases of possible homelessness or threatened homelessness.",
  "text": "(1) If a person (“an applicant”) applies to a local authority for accommodation, or for assistance in obtaining accommodation, and the authority have reason to believe that he may be homeless or threatened with homelessness, they shall make such inquiries as are necessary to satisfy themselves as to whether he is homeless or threatened with homelessness.\n(2) If the authority are so satisfied, they\n(b) may, if they think fit, make any further inquiries necessary to satisfy themselves as to whether he became homeless or threatened with homelessness intentionally;\nand if the authority think fit, they may also make inquiries as to whether he has a local connection with the district of another local authority in Scotland, England or Wales.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 28(2) substituted (7.11.2019) by Homelessness etc. (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 10), ss. 4(1), 14(1); S.S.I. 2019/316, art. 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "S. 28 extended (26.7.1993) by 1993 c. 23, s. 4(5), Sch. 1 para. 2 (with Sch. 1 para. 8); S.I. 1993/1655, art. 2."
    }
  ],
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      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
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      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
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      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
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      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "words repealed",
      "affecting": "asp/2025/13",
      "affecting_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/26/section/28",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:37.661692+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."
}