{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-2003/section-56",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-2003/section-56.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2003/11",
  "legislation_title": "Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/agricultural-holdings-scotland-act-2003",
  "path": "section/56",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "56",
  "heading": "No right to penal rent etc.",
  "text": "The landlord under a short limited duration tenancy , a limited duration tenancy or a modern limited duration tenancy is not entitled to recover any sum, by way of higher rent, liquidated damages or otherwise, in consequence of any breach or non-fulfilment of a term or condition of the lease, which is in excess of the damage actually suffered by the landlord in consequence of the breach or non-fulfilment; and any provision of the lease to the contrary is of no effect.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 56 substituted (30.11.2017) by Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 18), s. 130(1), sch. 2 para. 7(23) (with s. 128); S.S.I. 2017/299, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 56 in force at 27.11.2003 by S.S.I. 2003/548, art. 2(d) (with Sch.)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2003/11/section/56",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:48.358924+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."
}