{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-48",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-48.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/43",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988",
  "path": "section/48",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48",
  "heading": "First-tier Tribunal: procedure and information powers",
  "text": "(1) In section 53 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (regulations of the Secretary of State) at the end of paragraph (b) of subsection (1) (procedure of rent officers ...) there shall be added the words “whether under this Act or the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988”.\n(2) The First-tier Tribunal may by notice in the prescribed form served on the landlord or the tenant require him to give to the First-tier Tribunal, within such period of not less than fourteen days from the service of the notice as may be specified in the notice, such information as it may reasonably require for the purposes of its functions.\n(3) If any person fails without reasonable excuse to comply with a notice served on him under subsection (2) above, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 3 on the standard scale.\n(4) Where an offence under subsection (3) above committed by a body corporate is proved to have been committed with the consent or connivance of, or to be attributable to any neglect on the part of, any director, manager or secretary or other similar officer of the body corporate or any person who was purporting to act in any such capacity, he as well as the body corporate shall be guilty of that offence and shall be liable to be proceeded against and punished accordingly.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(1) omitted (1.12.2016) by virtue of The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(13)(a) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(2) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(13)(b)(i) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 48(2) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(13)(b)(ii) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(2) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(13)(b)(iii) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Word in s. 48(2) substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(13)(b)(iv) (with Sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "S. 48 heading substituted (1.12.2016) by The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Transfer of Functions of the Private Rented Housing Committees) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/337), reg. 1(2), Sch. 2 para. 2(14) (with Sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/43/section/48",
    "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."
}