{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-landlord-registration-modification-scotland-order-2005/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-landlord-registration-modification-scotland-order-2005/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "sdsi/2005/0110698193",
  "legislation_title": "The Private Landlord Registration (Modification) (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-private-landlord-registration-modification-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Modification of section 83",
  "text": "Section 83 of the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004 is modified as follows–\n(a) omit “or” which immediately follows subsection (6)(c); and\n(b) after subsection (6)(d) insert–\n“(e) the house is the only or main residence of the relevant person;\n(f) the house is–\n(i) on agricultural land which is land comprised in a lease constituting a 1991 Act tenancy within the meaning of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 2003 or comprised in a lease constituting a short limited duration tenancy or limited duration tenancy (within the meaning of that Act); and\n(ii) occupied by the tenant of the relevant lease;\n(g) the house is on a croft (within the meaning of section 3 of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993);\n(h) the house is–\n(i) on a holding to which any of the provisions of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Acts 1886 to 1931 applies;\n(ii) not situated in the crofting counties (within the meaning of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993); and\n(iii) occupied by the landholder;\n(i) the house is occupied by virtue of a liferent;\n(j) the house is–\n(i) owned by an organisation which has the advancement of religion as its principal purpose and the regular holding of worship as its principal activity; and\n(ii) occupied by a person whose principal responsibility is the leading of members of the organisation in worship and preaching the faith of that organisation;\n(k) the house is part of an estate of a deceased person and has been held by an executor for a period not exceeding 6 months from the date of death; or\n(l) the house is in the lawful possession of a heritable creditor and has been held by that creditor for a period not exceeding 6 months from the date of possession.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2003 asp 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1993 c. 44."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2005/0110698193/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:37.024408+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."
}