{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-housing-rent-control-exempt-property-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-housing-rent-control-exempt-property-scotland-regulations-2026/regulation-5.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2026/9780111065327",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Housing Rent Control (Exempt Property) (Scotland) Regulations 2026",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-housing-rent-control-exempt-property-scotland-regulations-2026",
  "path": "regulation/5",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Meaning of “mid-market rent property”",
  "text": "(1) A mid-market rent property is a property where—\n(a) the landlord is restricted from increasing the rent for the property in the circumstances specified in paragraph (2), (3) or (4),\n(b) those restrictions prevent the landlord from increasing the rent above the specified level, and\n(c) the rent for the property is not increased above the specified level.\n(2) A landlord is restricted from increasing the rent for the property where—\n(a) the landlord receives, or has received, funding from the Scottish Government or a local authority to provide the property for rent, and\n(b) there are conditions applicable to that funding which restrict the landlord’s ability to increase the rent.\n(3) A landlord is restricted from increasing the rent for the property where—\n(a) a person, other than the landlord, receives, or has received, funding from the Scottish Government or a local authority to provide the property for rent, and\n(b) there are conditions applicable to that funding which indirectly restrict the landlord’s ability to increase the rent.\n(4) A landlord is restricted from increasing the rent for the property where the terms of the tenancy agreement for the property restrict the landlord’s ability to increase the rent.\n(5) For the purposes of this regulation—\n“broad rental market area” has the meaning given by paragraph 4 of schedule 3B of the Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Scotland) Order 1997,\n“funding” means any form of financial assistance, including grants, loans, guarantees or indemnities,\n“median” means the middle value when a series of numbers are arranged by order of magnitude, with the median being the average of the two values closest to value in the centre of that distribution where there is an even number of values,\n“the specified level” is—\n(a) the median of market rent levels for that size of property in that broad rental market area, or\n(b) where there are no market rent levels available for that size of property in that broad rental market area, the median of market rent levels for a property of similar size in that broad rental market area.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1997/1995, as relevantly amended by S.I. 2008/3156."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2026/9780111065327/regulation/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:27:55.720754+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."
}