| Guvnor

Status: In Force

What it defines

Sections creating concrete business duties or carrying penalties, grouped as the instrument is structured. Titles link to the source text — blue means you’re leaving for legislation.gov.uk.

25 other provisions — procedural and definitional

s.001 Right of spouse without title to occupy matrimonial home.

s.002 Subsidiary and consequential rights.

s.003 Regulation by court of rights of occupancy of matrimonial home.

s.004 Exclusion orders.

s.005 Duration of orders under ss. 3 and 4.

s.006 Continued exercise of occupancy rights after dealing.

s.007 Dispensation by court with spouse’s consent to dealing.

s.008 Interests of creditors

s.009 Provisions where both spouses have title.

s.009 Effect of court action under section 3, 4 or 5 on reckoning of periods in sections 1 and 6

s.011 Poinding.

s.012 Adjudication.

s.013 Transfer of tenancy.

s.014 Interdict competent where spouses live together.

s.015 Attachment of powers of arrest to matrimonial interdicts.

s.016 Police powers after arrest.

s.017 Procedure after arrest.

s.018 Occupancy rights of cohabiting couples.

s.018 Meaning of “domestic interdict”

s.018 Domestic interdicts: further provision

s.019 Rights of occupancy in relation to division and sale.

s.020 Spouse’s consent in relation to calling up of standard securities over matrimonial homes.

s.021 Procedural provision

s.022 Interpretation.

s.023 Short title, commencement and extent.

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Matrimonial Homes (Family Protection) (Scotland) Act 1981

What it defines