{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-31A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-31A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/43",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988",
  "path": "section/31A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "31A",
  "heading": "Succession after the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 comes into force",
  "text": "(1) Subsection (2) applies where—\n(a) a sole tenant under an assured tenancy dies on or after 1 December 2017 , and\n(b) an individual succeeds to the tenancy.\n(2) As soon as the individual becomes the tenant, the tenancy—\n(a) ceases to be an assured tenancy (if, but for this section, it would have been one), and\n(b) becomes a private residential tenancy as defined in the Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 31A inserted (1.12.2017) by Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (asp 19), s. 79(2), sch. 5 para. 5; S.S.I. 2017/346, reg. 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 31A(1)(a) substituted (1.12.2017) by The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Act 2016 (Commencement No. 3, Amendment, Saving Provision and Revocation) Regulations 2017 (S.S.I. 2017/346), regs. 1(1), 4(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/43/section/31A",
    "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."
}