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Paragraph 22 F1

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

(1)

A tenancy cannot be a private residential tenancy if the landlord is—

(a)

a charity providing accommodation to veterans, or

(b)

a charity providing temporary accommodation to a care leaver.

(2)

For the purposes of this paragraph—

  • “care leaver” is a person who—

    1. (a)

      is under the age of 26 years,

    2. (b)

      was on that person’s sixteenth birthday or at any subsequent time looked after by a local authority, and

    3. (c)

      is no longer looked after by a local authority; and “looked after” is to be construed in accordance with sections 17(6) (duty of local authority to child looked after by them) and 29(7) (after-care) of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995,

  • “charity” has the meaning given in section 106 of the Charities and Trustee Investment (Scotland) Act 2005, and

  • “veteran” means a person who has served—

    1. (a)

      for at least one day in Her Majesty’s Armed Forces (regular and reserve), or

    2. (b)

      as a member of the Merchant Navy on a civilian vessel while supporting the Armed Forces.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Sch. 1 para. 22 inserted (1.7.2019) by The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (Modification of Schedule 1) Regulations 2019 (S.S.I. 2019/216), regs. 1, 2 (with reg. 3)