HC Deb 28 July 1982 vol 28 c1188

Lords amendment: No. 8, after clause 48, insert: F. In section 6(5) of the Tenants' Rights, Etc. (Scotland) Act 1980 (which provides for the ranking of a standard security to secure discount)—

(a) in paragraph (a)—

  1. (i) for the word "a" where it first appears there shall be substituted the word "any";
  2. (ii) after the word "loan" there shall be inserted the words "either—(1)"; and
  3. (iii) for the word "and" where it first occurs there shall be substituted the words "; or
(2) for the improvement of the dwelling-house, and"; and

(b) in paragraph (b) for the word "further" there shall be substituted the word "other"."

Mr. Allan Stewart

I beg to move, That this House doth agree with the Lords in the said amendment.

The new clause is necessary to allow tenants who purchase their council houses under the right-to-buy provisions of the 1980 Act to take out additional security on their home for loans for house improvement without seeking their landlord's consent, as is the case in England and Wales.

Question put and agreed to.

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