{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-15A",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-2/paragraph-15A.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/10",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/2/paragraph/15A",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "15A",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) A person (“person T”) who is the tenant or one of the joint tenants has engaged in behaviour which is abusive of a person (“person P”) who is a partner or ex-partner of person T, and the conditions in sub-paragraph (2) are met.\n(2) The conditions are—\n(a) person T is the sole tenant, or person T and person P are joint tenants (whether or not with others),\n(b) the house is person P's only or principal home,\n(c) person P wishes to continue living in the house,\n(d) the landlord wishes—\n(i) where person T is the sole tenant, to recover possession of the house from person T for the purpose of entering into a tenancy with person P instead,\n(ii) where person T is a joint tenant, to bring person T's interest in the tenancy to an end.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (1)—\n(a) “partner or ex-partner of person T” means—\n(i) the spouse or civil partner of person T,\n(ii) a former spouse or former civil partner of person T,\n(iii) a person with whom person T has, in the period of 12 months ending with the date on which the proceedings are raised under section 14(1), lived in the house as if a spouse of person T for a period of, or more than one period amounting in total to, at least 6 months,\n(b) the reference to behaviour by person T which is abusive of person P is to be construed in accordance with sections 2 and 3 of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021, as if the references in those sections to—\n(i) person A were references to person T,\n(ii) person B were references to person P.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 15A inserted (1.8.2026) by Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Act 2021 (asp 16), ss. 22(4), 24(2); S.S.I. 2025/400, reg. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/10/schedule/2/paragraph/15A",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:17:14.316341+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."
}