{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-scotland-exclusion-order-1998/article-6",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/686",
  "legislation_title": "The Construction Contracts (Scotland) Exclusion Order 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/construction-contracts-scotland-exclusion-order-1998",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Development agreements",
  "text": "(1) A construction contract is excluded from the operation of Part II if it is a development agreement, within the meaning given below.\n(2) A contract is a development agreement if it includes provision for the grant or disposal of a relevant interest in the land on which take place the principal construction operations to which the contract relates.\n(3) In paragraph (2) above, a relevant interest in land means–\n(a) ownership; or\n(b) a tenant’s interest under a lease for a period which is to expire no earlier than 12 months after the completion of the construction operations under the contract.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1998/686/article/6",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:34:42.973089+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."
}