{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987/section-213",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987/section-213.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1987/26",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1987",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1987",
  "path": "section/213",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "213",
  "heading": "Removal notice.",
  "text": "(1) A tenant who has been given a rent increase notice may give the authority a removal notice terminating the tenancy.\n(2) The removal notice shall have effect to terminate the tenancy if—\n(a) it is given within 2 weeks of the date on which the rent increase notice was given, or such longer period as the notice may specify;\n(b) it specifies a date for the termination of the tenancy within 4 weeks after the date on which it is given.\n(3) Nothing in the terms of the tenancy (express or implied) shall prevent a tenant giving a removal notice that complies with subsection (2).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1987/26/section/213",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:52:37.661692+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."
}