{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-cladding-remediation-scotland-act-2024/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-cladding-remediation-scotland-act-2024/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2024/7",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-cladding-remediation-scotland-act-2024",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Eligibility for membership",
  "text": "(1) This section elaborates on the provision that is to be made by regulations in accordance with section 25(3)(a).\n(2) Regulations must make being eligible for membership of a scheme depend on a person—\n(a) being a developer, and\n(b) having a connection to a building of a kind described by the regulations that has problematic cladding.\n(3) It is for the regulations to describe the kind of connection to a building that a developer must have in order to be eligible for membership of a scheme.\n(4) The regulations may provide for a connection of an indirect kind to suffice.\n(5) Subsection (2) is not exhaustive of the matters that regulations may specify as criteria for being eligible for membership of a scheme.\n(6) In this section—\n“developer” means a person carrying on, for business purposes, activities connected with the construction or other development of buildings,\n“problematic cladding” means an external wall cladding system in relation to which a single-building assessment report states that—\n(a) (directly or indirectly) the cladding system creates or exacerbates a risk to human life, and\n(b) work is needed to eliminate or mitigate that risk.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 39(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 6.1.2025 by S.S.I. 2024/370, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2024/7/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:09.456285+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."
}