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Housing (Scotland) Act 1987
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219 Local authority home loan interest rates. S
(1)Subject to subsections (2) and (3)—
(a)any advance of money under a power conferred by section 214 or under any other power to make loans for the like purposes; and
(b)any sum secured under any arrangement by which the price or part of the price of a house sold by a local authority is secured by a standard security; and
(c)any sum secured under any security which is taken over by a local authority under a power conferred by section 229 (local authority indemnities for building societies, etc.),
is a variable interest home loan for the purposes of this section.
(2)This section does not apply to an advance made before 3rd October 1980 or to a sum secured in respect of the price of a house agreed to be sold before then or (where subsection 1(c) applies) to a security granted before then.
(3)This section shall not apply to an advance made in implement of a contract constituted by an offer of advance made before that date and an unqualified acceptance of that offer thereafter.
(4)Subject to section 220, a local authority shall, in respect of their variable interest home loans, charge a rate of interest which shall be equal to whichever is the higher of the following—
(a)the standard rate for the time being, as declared by the Secretary of State in accordance with subsection (5);
(b)the locally determined rate calculated in accordance with subsection (6).
(5)In considering what rate to declare as the standard rate for the purposes of subsection (4), the Secretary of State shall take into account interest rates charged by building societies in the United Kingdom and any movement in those rates.
(6)The locally determined rate for the purposes of this section shall be the rate which is necessary to service loan charges on money which is to be applied to making variable interest home loans during the relevant period of six months (referred to in subsection (7)), together with the addition of one quarter per cent. to cover the administration cost of making and managing variable interest home loans.
(7)The locally determined rate, for the purposes of this section, shall be determined by each local authority for the period of 6 months not less than one month before the beginning of the relevant period.
(8)Nothing in this or the following two sections shall affect the operation of section 223(1)(b) (under which a part of certain loans may be free of interest for up to 5 years).
Modifications etc. (not altering text)
C1S. 219 excluded by Local Government Act 1988 (c. 9, SIF 81:1), s. 24(4)
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