UK Act of Parliament
1981
United Kingdom
Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981
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What this Act requires
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Browse 25 other sections — procedural / definitional / commencement
Subsidiary and consequential rights.
Regulation by court of rights of occupancy of matrimonial home.
Exclusion orders.
Duration of orders under ss. 3 and 4.
Continued exercise of occupancy rights after dealing.
Dispensation by court with spouse’s consent to dealing.
Interests of creditors
Provisions where both spouses have title.
Effect of court action under section 3, 4 or 5 on reckoning of periods in sections 1 and 6
Poinding.
Adjudication.
Transfer of tenancy.
Interdict competent where spouses live together.
Attachment of powers of arrest to matrimonial interdicts.
Police powers after arrest.
Procedure after arrest.
Occupancy rights of cohabiting couples.
Meaning of “domestic interdict”
Domestic interdicts: further provision
Rights of occupancy in relation to division and sale.
Spouse’s consent in relation to calling up of standard securities over matrimonial homes.
Procedural provision
Interpretation.
Short title, commencement and extent.
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