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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tenancy-deposit-schemes-scotland-regulations-2011/regulation-2",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2011/9780111011850",
  "legislation_title": "The Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-tenancy-deposit-schemes-scotland-regulations-2011",
  "path": "regulation/2",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Interpretation",
  "text": "In these Regulations—\n“the Act” means the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006;\n“the 2004 Act” means the Antisocial Behaviour etc. (Scotland) Act 2004;\n“adjudicator” means a person appointed by an approved scheme to resolve disputes relating to tenancy deposits held by that scheme;\n“approval” and “approved” refer to approval by the Scottish Ministers under section 122 (approval of tenancy deposit schemes) of the Act;\n“approved scheme” means a tenancy deposit scheme that has been approved by virtue of section 122 of the Act;\n“designated account” means an account held by the scheme administrator in accordance with regulation 16;\n“landlord” refers to a landlord, within the meaning conferred by the Act, of a relevant tenancy;\n“operational”, in relation to a tenancy deposit scheme, means that the scheme is in a position to accept and safeguard deposits as referred to in regulation 14(1)(a);\n“relevant tenancy” has the meaning given by regulation 3(3) and references to a “tenancy” are to be construed accordingly;\n“scheme administrator” refers to the person or body who may administer an approved scheme;\n“tenancy deposit” has the meaning conferred by section 120(1) (tenancy deposits: preliminary) of the Act;\n“tenancy deposit scheme” has the meaning conferred by section 120(2) of the Act;\n“tenant” refers to a tenant of a relevant tenancy and includes joint tenants and former tenants by whom a tenancy deposit was paid;\n“working day” means a day that is not a Saturday or Sunday, nor any day that is a bank holiday under the Banking and Financial Dealings Act 1971 in any part of the United Kingdom; and\n“write” and “writing” include electronic communications within the meaning of section 15 (general interpretation) of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 asp 8."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1971 c.80."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2000 c.7. Section 15(1) was amended by paragraph 158 of Schedule 17 to the Communications Act 2003 (c.21)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2011/9780111011850/regulation/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:37:27.328896+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."
}