{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-3/paragraph-12",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001/schedule-3/paragraph-12.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2001/10",
  "legislation_title": "Housing (Scotland) Act 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/housing-scotland-act-2001",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/12",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Qualified persons: co-operative housing associations",
  "text": "(1) This paragraph applies where the landlord is a registered social landlord which is a co-operative housing association.\n(2) A qualified person who is entitled to the benefit of paragraph 6, 7 or 8 must, 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, apply for membership of the co-operative housing association.\n(3) Where a qualified person—\n(a) fails to comply with sub-paragraph (2), or\n(b) complies with that sub-paragraph but the co-operative housing association refuses the application for membership,\nthe person is to be treated as having declined the tenancy at the time of the tenant’s death.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2001/10/schedule/3/paragraph/12",
    "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."
}