Source: Scottish Government. (2024). Housing (Scotland) Bill Policy Memorandum. Retrieved from https://www.parliament.scot/-/media/files/legislation/bills/s6-bills/housing-scotland-bill/introduction/policy-memorandum-accessible.pdf [accessed 16 May 2024]The bill updates the definition of domestic abuse in certain parts of housing legislation to reflect abusive behaviour within the meaning of more recent domestic abuse legislation in the Domestic Abuse (Scotland) Act 2018 and the Protection from Abuse (Scotland) Act 2021 as proposed by the PRG (the 2021 Act defines abusive behaviour as behaviour likely to cause the person the behaviour is directed against to suffer physical or psychological harm and this definition covers financial abuse.)