Short Scottish Secure Tenancies for antisocial behaviour and miscellaneous changes: statutory guidance for social landlords

9. Other Changes To The Grounds For Granting A Short SST – Accommodation For A Person Requiring Housing Support Services

9.1 The 2001 Act includes a ground^[34] which allows landlords to give a short SST to let a house on a temporary basis to a person requiring or in receipt of housing support services. Section 7(4)(b) of the 2014 Act amends this ground. The amended ground reads as follows:
Paragraph 6
“Accommodation for person in receipt of housing support
The house is to be let expressly on a temporary basis to a person –
(a) to whom no other paragraph of schedule 6 applies, and
(b) who is in receipt of a housing support service.”

9.2 This change means that where any of the other grounds for granting a short SST in schedule 6 of the 2001 Act apply, (such as any of the antisocial behaviour grounds), the ‘Accommodation for person in receipt of housing support’ ground cannot be used to give a prospective or existing tenant a short SST from 1 May 2019 onwards.

9.3 It also means that it is no longer sufficient for a person to require housing support services for this ground to be used to give a short SST from 1 May 2019. The prospective or existing tenant must actually be receiving a housing support service.