- assured agricultural occupancy
has the same meaning as in Part I of the Housing Act 1988. • “mental disorder” has the same meaning as in the Mental Health Act 1983 or the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984;
- bank
has the same meaning as in subsection (1);
- building society
means a building society within the meaning of the Building Societies Act 1986;
- charge
includes a heritable security;
- co-operative housing association
means a fully mutual housing association which is a registered society within the meaning of the Co-operative and Community Benefit Societies Act 2014(in this part referred to as “the 1965 Act”).
- compulsory disposal
means a disposal of property which is acquired compulsorily, or is acquired by a person who has made or would have made, or for whom another person has made or would have made, a compulsory purchase order authorising its compulsory purchase for the purposes for which it is acquired.
- disposition
means sale, lease, mortgage, charge or any other disposal.
- dwelling
means a building or part of a building occupied or intended to be occupied as a separate dwelling, together with any yard, garden, outhouses and appurtenances belonging to it or usually enjoyed with it;
- financial year
means the period of 12 months ending with the 31st March;
- friendly society
has the same meaning as in subsection (1);
- grant-aided land
means land—
- heritable security
means any security capable of being constituted over any land, or real right in land, by disposition of the land, or assignation of the real right, in security of any debt and of being recorded in the Register of Sasines or, as the case may be, registered in the Land Register of Scotland and which includes a security constituted by an ex facie absolute disposition or assignation or by a standard security;
- hire-purchase agreement
means a hire-purchase agreement or conditional sale agreement within the meaning of the Consumer Credit Act 1974.
- hostel
means— (a) in relation to a building provided or converted before 3rd January 1962, a building in which is provided, for persons generally or for any class or classes of persons, residential accommodation (otherwise than in separate and self-contained dwellings) and board, and (b) in relation to a building provided or converted on or after that date, a building in which is provided for persons generally or for any class or classes of persons, residential accommodation (otherwise than in houses) and either board or common facilities for the preparation of adequate food to the needs of those persons, or both;
- house
includes— (a) any part of a building which is occupied or intended to be occupied as a separate dwelling;
- housing activities
has the same meaning as in subsection (1);
- housing association
means a society, body of trustees or company—................................
- housing functions
means— and includes functions which are supplementary or incidental to any of those functions.
- housing trust
means a corporation or body of persons which—
- insurance company
means an insurance company to which Part II of the Insurance Companies Act 1982 applies;
- lease
includes an agreement for a lease and a licence to occupy, and the expressions “grant” and “term” shall be construed accordingly.
- loan charges
includes any loan charges made by a housing association (including charges for debt management) whether in respect of borrowing from a capital fund kept by the association or in respect of borrowing between accounts kept by the association for different functions or otherwise.
- local authority
means a council constituted under section 2 of the Local Government etc.
- long lease
has the same meaning as in Part V of the Housing Act 1985 (the right to buy).
- mental disorder
has the same meaning as in the Mental Health Act 1983 or the Mental Health (Scotland) Act 1984;
- mortgage
means a heritable security and “mortgagee” means a creditor in such a security;
- mortgagee
means a creditor in such a security;
- new town corporation
means a development corporation within the meaning of the New Towns Act 1981;
- occupation contract
has the same meaning as in section 7 of the Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016 (anaw 1);
- purchaser
means the person acquiring the interest disposed of by the first disposal.
- recognised body
means a body designated, or of a class or description designated, in an order made under this subsection by statutory instrument by the Secretary of State with the consent of the Treasury.
- registered charity
has the same meaning as in Part I.
- registered housing association
means a housing association registered in the register of social landlords maintained under section 20(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17), • “registered social landlord” has the same meaning as in Part I of the Housing Act 1996, and • • “unregistered”, in relation to a housing association, means— (a) not registered as a provider of social housing under Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, (b) not registered as a social landlord under Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996, and (c) not registered as a social landlord under Part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17).
- registered social landlord
has the same meaning as in Part I of the Housing Act 1996, and • • “unregistered”, in relation to a housing association, means— (a) not registered as a provider of social housing under Part 2 of the Housing and Regeneration Act 2008, (b) not registered as a social landlord under Part 1 of the Housing Act 1996, and (c) not registered as a social landlord under Part 2 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 (asp 17).
- relevant advance
means an advance made to a person whose interest in the dwelling is or was acquired by virtue of a conveyance of the freehold or an assignment of a long lease, or a grant of a long lease by— • a local authority, • a new town corporation, • the Welsh Ministers so far as they are or were exercising functions in relation to property transferred (or to be transferred) to them as mentioned in section 36(1)(a)(i) to (iii) of the New Towns Act 1981, • an urban development corporation, •... •..., or • a registered social landlord. or an advance made to such a person by the Welsh Ministers if the conveyance, assignment or grant was made under section 90.
- secure tenancy
has the same meaning as in section 79 of the Housing Act 1985 or 44 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987;
- self-build society
means a housing association whose object is to provide, for sale to, or occupation by, its members, dwellings built or improved principally with the use of its members’ own labour.
- service charge
has the meaning given by section 621A of the Housing Act 1985.
- shared ownership lease
means a lease— (a) granted on payment of a premium calculated by reference to a percentage of the value of the house or dwelling or of the cost of providing it, or (b) under which the tenant (or his personal representatives) will or may be entitled to a sum calculated by reference directly or indirectly to the value of the house or dwelling;
- subsidiary
has the meaning given by section 1159 of the Companies Act 2006.
- subsidy agreement
means an agreement made between a local authority and a housing association which provides for payments to be made under or by reference to any of the following enactments— • section 2 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1924, • section 29(1) of the Housing Act 1930, • section 27(3) of the Housing Act 1935, • section 26 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1935, • section 94(3) of the Housing Act 1936, • section 87(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1950, • section 1(2)(b) of the Housing Subsidies Act 1956, • section 2, 3 or 4 of the Housing and Town Development (Scotland) Act 1957, • section 1(2)(b) of the Housing (Financial Provisions) Act 1958, • section 1(2) of the Housing Act 1961, • section 2, 4, 5, 6 or 7 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1962, • section 1(5) or 9(4) of the Housing Subsidies Act 1967, • section 2, 4, 6, 7, 9 or 10 of the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1968, • (being enactments with respect to which it was provided by the Housing Finance Act 1972 or the Housing (Financial Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1972 that no further payments were to be made for 1972-73 or any subsequent year).
- the Companies Act
means the Companies Act 1985;
- the relevant regulator
means,—
- trustee savings bank
means a trustee savings bank registered under the Trustee Savings Bank Act 1981 or earlier legislation;
- urban development corporation
means an urban development corporation established under Part XVI of the Local Government, Planning and Land Act 1980.