{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004/section-53",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004/section-53.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2004/8",
  "legislation_title": "Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/antisocial-behaviour-etc-scotland-act-2004",
  "path": "section/53",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "53",
  "heading": "Meaning of “relevant place” and “relevant property”",
  "text": "(1) In this Part—\n“relevant place” means—\n(a)any place within accommodation (except, in the case of measurement of noise emitted from relevant property which is accommodation, that accommodation); and\n(b)such other place as may be prescribed;\n“relevant property” means—\n(a)any accommodation;\n(b)any land belonging exclusively to, or enjoyed exclusively with, any accommodation;\n(c)any land not falling within paragraph (b)—\n(i)to which at least two persons have rights in common; and\n(ii)which is used by those persons as a private garden;\n(d)any common passage, close, court, stair, lift or yard pertinent to any tenement or group of separately owned houses; or\n(e)such other place as may be prescribed.\n(2) In subsection (1)—\n“accommodation” means a building or other structure (or part of a building or other structure) used or intended to be used as a separate unit of accommodation (whether on a permanent basis or otherwise); and\n“prescribed” means prescribed by the Scottish Ministers by order.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2004/8/section/53",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:35.498070+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."
}