To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures should be undertaken with respect to the eviction of a private tenant whose landlord has defaulted on the mortgage and the property has been repossessed. The lender may terminate the tenancyagreement. However, under the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988, for tenants covered byan assured or short assured tenancy, a sheriff may not consider proceedings forpossession unless notice has been served on the tenant in accordance with section19 of the act or the sheriff considers it reasonable to dispense with this requirement.The court is required under the 1988act to grant possession where a lender is entitled to sell the property becausethe landlord has not abided by the conditions of the mortgage.