- accommodation
includes neither an area used for storage nor a staircase, passage, corridor or other means of access;
- agricultural land
has the same meaning as in section 115(1) of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984.
- benefits and welfare legislation
means— (a) the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, (b) the Jobseekers Act 1995, (c) the State Pension Credit Act 2002, (d) the Tax Credits Act 2002, (e) the Welfare Reform Act 2007, (f) the Welfare Reform Act 2012, (g) the Pensions Act 2014, (h) the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, • “child” means a person under the age of 18.
- benefits claimant
means a person who— (a) is entitled to payments (including payments made directly to a landlord) under or by virtue of benefits and welfare legislation, or (b) is entitled, by virtue of section 80 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992, to a reduction in the amount of council tax payable in respect of the property on the basis of income or an entitlement to a payment mentioned in paragraph (a), • “benefits and welfare legislation” means— (a) the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, (b) the Jobseekers Act 1995, (c) the State Pension Credit Act 2002, (d) the Tax Credits Act 2002, (e) the Welfare Reform Act 2007, (f) the Welfare Reform Act 2012, (g) the Pensions Act 2014, (h) the Social Security (Scotland) Act 2018, • “child” means a person under the age of 18.
- child
means a person under the age of 18.
- conveyance
includes the grant of a tenancy and any other conveyance or transfer other than upon death;
- council tax
means the tax payable under the Local Government Finance Act 1992;
- Crown interest
means an interest which belongs to Her Majesty in right of the Crown or to a government department, or which is held in trust for Her Majesty for the purposes of a government department.
- First-tier Tribunal
means the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland;
- general development order
has the same meaning as in section 40(3) of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1972 and other expressions have the same meaning as in that Act.
- house
includes a part of a house;
- housing association tenancy
means a tenancy to which Part VI of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 applies;
- landlord
includes any person from time to time deriving title from the original landlord and also includes, in relation to a house, any person other than a tenant who is, or but for the existence of an assured tenancy would be, entitled to possession of the house;
- let
includes “sub-let”;
- living accommodation
means accommodation of such a nature that the fact that it constitutes or is included in the shared accommodation is sufficient, apart from this section, to prevent the tenancy from constituting an assured tenancy of a house.
- local authority
means an islands or district council.
- occupier
means, in relation to a tenancy, the tenant and, in relation to a right to occupy, its grantee;
- order for possession
means decree of removing or warrant of ejection or other like order;
- owner
means, in relation to a tenancy, the landlord and, in relation to a right to occupy, the person granting it, and in any case where there are joint landlords or grantors any one of them shall be regarded as the “owner”;
- prescribed
means prescribed by regulations made by the Secretary of State;
- protected tenancy
has the same meaning as in that Act.
- relevant housing benefit
means—
- relevant universal credit
means universal credit to which the tenant was entitled which includes an amount under section 11 of the Welfare Reform Act 2012 in respect of the rent;
- rent
includes any sums payable by the tenant to the landlord on account of the use of furniture or for services or in respect of council tax, whether or not those sums are separate from the sums payable for the occupation of the house concerned or are payable under separate agreements.
- section 24 reference
means the reference of a notice under section 24(1);
- section 25A reference
means the reference of a notice under section 25A;
- secure tenancy
has the same meaning as in Part III of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.
- short tenancy
includes a tenancy which, in proceedings for possession under Case 15 in Schedule 2 to to the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 is treated as a short tenancy.
- specified
means specified, or of a class specified, for the purposes of this paragraph by regulations made by the Secretary of State.
- succession
means the occasion on which a person becomes the statutory or statutory assured tenant of a dwelling-house by virtue of this Schedule and “successor” shall be construed accordingly. 8 Paragraphs 5 and 6 above do not apply where the statutory tenancy of the original tenant arose by virtue of section 20 of the Rent Act 1965. 1 The provisions of this Schedule shall have effect for the purpose of determining who is the statutory assured tenant of a dwelling-house by succession after the death of the person (in this Schedule referred to as “the first successor”) who, immediately before his death, was the statutory tenant of the dwelling-house by virtue of paragraph 2 or paragraph 3 of Schedule 1 above. 2 If, immediately before his death, the first successor was still a statutory tenant, the provisions of paragraph 3 below shall have effect for the purpose of determining who is entitled to a statutory assured tenancy of the dwelling-house by succession after the death of the first successor. 3 Where a person who— a was a member of the original tenant’s family immediately before that tenant’s death;
- tenancy
means a tenancy under which a house is let as a separate dwelling.
- tenant
includes a sub-tenant and any person deriving title from the original tenant or sub-tenant;
- the date of the conveyance
means the date on which the conveyance was granted, delivered or otherwise made effective.
- the former tenancy
means the tenancy on the termination of which the statutory assured tenancy arises.