{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-48A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988/section-48A.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1988/43",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 1988",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-1988",
  "path": "section/48A",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "48A",
  "heading": "Amounts attributable to services.",
  "text": "In order to assist authorities to give effect to the housing benefit scheme under Part VII of the Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992, where a rent is determined under section 25 or 34 above, the First-tier Tribunal shall note in their determination the amount (if any) of the rent which, in the opinion of the First-tier Tribunal, is fairly attributable to the provision of services, except where that amount is in its opinion negligible; and the amounts so noted may be included in the information specified in an order under section 49 below.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "S. 48A inserted (1.7.1992) by Social Security (Consequential Provisions) Act 1992 (c. 6), ss. 4, 7(2), Sch. 2, para. 102"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 48A 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(15)(a) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 48A 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(15)(b) (with sch. 1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 48A 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(15)(c) (with sch. 1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1988/43/section/48A",
    "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."
}