P ART 2 30 D EALING WITH EVICTIONS Evictions: duties to consider delay 24 Private residential tenancies: duty to consider delay to eviction (1) The 2016 Act is modified as follows. (2) After section 51 insert— 28 Housing (Scotland) Bill Part 2—Dealing with evictions “51A Eviction orders: duty to consider delay (1) When specifying in an eviction order the day on which a tenancy is to end, the First-tier Tribunal must consider whether it would be reasonable in the circumstances to specify a day that has the effect of delaying the bringing of 5 the tenancy to an end (but see subsection (5)). (2) The Tribunal may consider in particular— (a) whether bringing the tenancy to an end without a period of delay would— (i) cause the tenant...