{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-13",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-13.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/43",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988",
  "path": "section/13",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "13",
  "heading": "Letting of a house together with other land.",
  "text": "(1) If, under a tenancy, a house is let together with other land, then, for the purposes of this Act—\n(a) if and so long as the main purpose of the letting is the provision of a home for the tenant or, as the case may be, at least one of the joint tenants, the other land shall be treated as part of the house; and\n(b) if and so long as the main purpose of the letting is not as mentioned in paragraph (a) above, the tenancy shall be treated as not being one under which a house is let as a separate dwelling.\n(2) Nothing in subsection (1) above affects any question whether a tenancy is precluded from being an assured tenancy by virtue of any provision of Schedule 4 to this Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/43/section/13",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:47:44.940068+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."
}