{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/section-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/section-9.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "section/9",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Amendment of definition of “matrimonial home”",
  "text": "In section 22 of the 1981 Act (interpretation) (which shall become subsection (1) of that section)—\n(a) in the definition of “matrimonial home”—\n(i) after “means” there shall be inserted “ subject to subsection (2), ”; and\n(ii) for the words “one spouse for that” there shall be substituted “ a person for one ”; and\n(b) at the end there shall be inserted—\n“(2) If—\n(a) the tenancy of a matrimonial home is transferred from one spouse to the other by agreement or under any enactment; and\n(b) following the transfer, the spouse to whom the tenancy was transferred occupies the home but the other spouse does not,\nthe home shall, on such transfer, cease to be a matrimonial home.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 9 in force at 4.5.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/2/section/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:18.094952+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."
}