Tenancies Which are Not Secure Tenancies

Orders of the Day — Tenants' Rights, etc. (Scotland) Bill – in the House of Commons at 10:45 pm on 11 June 1980.

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Mr. Deputy Speaker:

With this it will be convenient to take Government amendment No. 205.

Photo of Malcolm Rifkind Malcolm Rifkind Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Scottish Office)

These amendments change the Bill's approach to the security-of-tenure tenants living in houses leased rather than owned by the landlord. Amendment No. 191 removes the current provision in the schedule excluding from security of tenure tenants living in houses leased to landlords for use as temporary housing accommodation. The amendment will mean that tenants who do not fall into the categories mentioned will not be debarred from security of tenure on the arbitrary basis of the terms on which the landlord happens to hold the house allocated to them.

Amendment No. 205 provides for the situation in which at present it is clearly undesirable that a landlord should continue renting a particular house to a tenant if the landlord's own legal rights over the house have expired. Consequently, a ground for possession with a right to suitable alternative accommodation for the tenant is provided for in this amendment.

I think that these amendments will be acceptable to the House, and I commend them.

Amendment agreed to.

Amendment made : No. 192, in page 48, leave out lines 17 to 29.—[Mr. Rifkind.]