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Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004

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Passage in Parliament
Substantive Provisions
Ownership Duties Demolition
See also
References
External links

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|short_title = Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004
|parliament = Scottish Parliament
|long_title = An Act of the Scottish Parliament to make provision about the boundaries and pertinents of properties comprised in tenements and for the regulation of the rights and duties of the owners of properties comprised in tenements; to make minor amendments of the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003 (asp 9); and for connected purposes.
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|introduced_by = Margaret Curran,
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|royal_assent = 22 October 2004
|commencement = 28 November 2004
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The Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 is an Act of the Scottish Parliament which regulates the law regarding tenements.

The Act is part of a package of land reforms together with the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 and the Title Conditions (Scotland) Act 2003, all of which commenced on 28 November 2004.^[2]^[3]

Passage in Parliament

The Bill was introduced to the Scottish Parliament on 30 January 2004 by then Communities Minister Margaret Curran, and supported by Justice Minister Cathy Jamieson and Deputy Communities Minister Mary Mulligan.

Substantive Provisions

Section 26 of the Act defines a tenement as two or more related but separate flats divided from each other horizontally. The definition is framed broadly in order to include not only traditional tenement properties, but also four-in-a-block houses and larger houses which have been subdivided.

Ownership

The Act contains a number of provisions affecting ownership of various parts of a tenement building:

s.2(3) provides that the owner of a top-floor flat shall own the roof and loft space over that flat.
s.2(4) provides that the owner of a ground-floor flat shall own the solum (ground) beneath that flat. It is also long-accepted law that the owner of the ground-floor flat owns the solum before and behind that flat.
s.2(5) provides that the close, which is in common ownership, includes the solum beneath and roof above the close.
s.2(6) provides that the proprietor of the solum of any part of the property shall also own all the air space above this, including that above the top-floor flat's roof; however s.2(7) includes within ownership of the roof any air space above a slope in the roof below the highest point of the roof.
s.3 attaches a right of common property in a close or lift to each flat served by that close or lift.

Duties

The Act restates in statute the common law of common interest in its application to tenement properties. Owners are obliged under s.8 to maintain any part of their property which provides support or shelter to another part of the building, and are forbidden under s.9 from doing anything to their property which would impair the support or shelter provided to, or the natural light enjoyed by, any part of the building.

Demolition

The Act contains a number of provision to protect owners' interest in the event of demolition.

s.20 provides that ownership rights, including in pertinent land, shall not be affected by demolition of the building; this means that, if a tenement building is demolished, individual flat-owners will retain ownership of the air space their flat previously occupied, as well as any interest they had in land which served the flat, e.g. a close or driveway.
s.21 provides for the equal distribution of the profits of demolition between owners, except where there is such disparity in the size of flats that the largest flat in the building was more than one-and-a-half times larger than the smallest, in which case the profits are divided in proportion to the size of individual apartments.
s.22 places restrictions on the use of land on which a tenement formerly stood when separate owners retain ownership interests in the site.
s.23 allows an owner of an abandoned tenement in certain circumstances to apply for permission to sell the tenement.

References

1. ^{{cite web|year=2004|title=Tenements (Scotland) Act 2004 - Passage of the Bill: Summary | publisher=Scottish Parliament | url=http://www.parliament.scot/S2_Bills/Tenements%20(Scotland)%20Bill/BBV72.pdf |accessdate=4 March 2017}}
2. ^{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4048529.stm |title=Age-old Scots property rights end |date=28 November 2004 |newspaper=BBC News Online}}
3. ^{{cite web|last1=Elliot|first1=Alison|last2=Watt|first2=John|last3=Ian|first3=Cooke|last4=Taylor|first4=Pip|title=The Land of Scotland and the Common Good: Report of the Land Reform Review Group|url=http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0045/00451087.pdf|publisher=The Scottish Government|accessdate=4 March 2017|page=142|language=English|date=2014}}

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5 : Acts of the Scottish Parliament 2004|Scots property law|Scottish culture|Land reform in Scotland|Housing in Scotland

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