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1 Hereinafter referred to as the 2002 Regulations.
2 Firm Foundations: The Future of Housing in Scotland - An Analysis of Responses. Scottish Government Social Research, 2008. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/04/02094036/0
3 Helping Homeless People: Homelessness Monitoring Group Report - March 2008. Scottish Government. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/03/27142559/0
4 Towards 2012: Homelessness Support Project. Scottish Government, 2008. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2008/03/27152416/0
5 Section 31(2) of Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (as amended).
6 Section 31(5) of Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (as amended).
7 Deposit Guarantee Schemes in Scotland: A sustainable housing option 2008. Crisis, 2008.
8 Towards 2012: Homelessness Support Project; Scottish Government, 2008. Homelessness Monitoring Group Report 2008; Scottish Government 2008. This request is also being made via the draft Single Outcome Agreements currently being discussed between individual local authorities and the Scottish Government.
9 These include section 32(5) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (as amended) which states that local authorities cannot fulfil their accommodation duties to homeless households through accommodation which is overcrowded, may endanger the health of the occupants, does not meet any special needs of the household or is not reasonable for them to occupy; and section 32(8) of the Act (as amended) which states that any accommodation provided must be suitable for occupation by any children in the household so far as is consistent with their best interests.
(10) 1987 c.26; section 32A was inserted by section 3(5) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10). See section 338 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 for the definition of "prescribed". The function of the Secretary of State to prescribe by Regulations was transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46).
(11) 2001 asp 10.
(12) 1988 c.43.
(13) 412/2002.
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