{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1949-repealed-2591991/section-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1949-repealed-2591991/section-6.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/75",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1949 (repealed 25.9.1991)",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-1949-repealed-2591991",
  "path": "section/6",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Provisions supplementary to s. 4 and s. 5.",
  "text": "(1) Where by virtue of section four of this Act the liability for the maintenance or repair of any item of fixed equipment is transferred from the tenant to the landlord, the landlord may within the prescribed period beginning with the date on which the transfer takes effect require that there shall be determined by arbitration, and paid by the tenant, the amount of any compensation which would have been payable under section fifty-seven of this Act or in accordance with subsection (3) of that section, in respect of any previous failure by the tenant to discharge the said liability, if the tenant had quitted the holding on the termination of his tenancy at the date on which the transfer takes effect.\n(2) Where by virtue of section four of this Act the liability for the maintenance or repair of any item of fixed equipment is transferred from the landlord to the tenant, any claim by the tenant in respect of any previous failure by the landlord to discharge the said liability shall, if the tenant within the prescribed period beginning with the date on which the transfer takes effect so requires, be determined by arbitration, and any amount directed by the award to be paid by the landlord shall be paid by him to the tenant.\n(3) Where it appears to the arbiter—\n(a) on any reference under section four of this Act that, by reason of any provision which he is required by that section to include in his award, or\n(b) on any reference under subsection (5) of section five of this Act that, by reason of any provision included in his award,\nit is equitable that the rent of the holding should be varied, he may vary the rent accordingly.\n(4) The award of an arbiter under section four or five of this Act shall have effect as if the terms and provisions specified and made therein were contained in an agreement in writing entered into by the landlord and the tenant and having effect as from the making of the award or, if the award so provides, from such later date as may be specified therein.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Geo6/12-13-14/75/section/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:20:10.716020+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}