# Housing (Scotland) Act 2001, Paragraph 7


(1) The tenant (or any one of joint tenants), a person residing or lodging in the house with, or any subtenant of, the tenant, or a person visiting the house has—
(a) acted in an anti-social manner in relation to a person residing in, visiting or otherwise engaged in lawful activity in the locality, or
(b) pursued a course of conduct amounting to harassment of such a person, or a course of conduct which is otherwise anti-social conduct in relation to such a person,
and it is not reasonable in all the circumstances that the landlord should be required to make other accommodation available to the tenant.
(2) In sub-paragraph (1)—
“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,
“harassment” is to be construed in accordance with section 8 of the Protection from Harassment Act 1997 (c.40).

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/10/schedule/2/paragraph/7 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-7
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.

