A Short Scottish Secure Tenancies (SSST) is a special kind of Scottish Secure Tenancy (SST). The differences between a SSST and a Scottish Secure Tenancy (SST) are:
- there is no right to buy
- the tenancy cannot be passed onto someone after you die security of tenure (the right to stay in your home) is more limited
- rights to sign over your tenancy to someone else (this is called assignation) or sublet under a SSST are limited to the period of the SSST.
SSSTs may only be used in the following circumstances:
- lets to people evicted for anti-social behaviour from a tenancy in Scotland, England, Wales or Northern Ireland, within a period of three years prior to the service of a notice that a SSST will be offered
- lets to people where they or other members of their household are the subject of an Anti-Social Behaviour Order (ASBO) granted on or after 30 September 2002
- temporary lets to people moving into the area in order to take up employment
- temporary lets pending development affecting the house
- temporary lets to homeless people for tenancies of six months or more
- temporary lets to people requiring or receiving housing support services
- lets in houses leased by the landlord from another body where the terms of the lease prevent the landlord subletting under an SST.
Further information
Scottish Executive guidance on Short Scottish Secure Tenancies (SSST).
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