{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-3/paragraph-11",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-3/paragraph-11.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/10",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/11",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Declining a tenancy",
  "text": "(1) A qualified person who is entitled to the benefit of paragraph 6, 7 or 8 may decline the tenancy by giving the landlord notice in writing within 4 weeks of the tenant’s death or, where the qualified person was given notice under paragraph 10, within 4 weeks of the date on which that notice was given.\n(2) Notice under sub-paragraph (1) has effect as if given at the time of the tenant’s death.\n(3) A qualified person who declines a tenancy—\n(a) must vacate the house within 3 6 months of the date of the notice under sub-paragraph (1) declining the tenancy,\n(b) is liable to pay rent which becomes due after the tenant’s death only in respect of any rental period (that is to say, a period in respect of which an instalment of rent falls to be paid) during any part of which the qualified person has occupied the house after the tenant’s death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Word in sch. 3 para. 11(3)(a) substituted (1.8.2026 for specified purposes) by Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 (asp 13), ss. 49(2)(d), 86(2); S.S.I. 2026/115, reg. 2(2)(5), sch. Pt. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/10/schedule/3/paragraph/11",
    "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."
}